Re: [PATCH] t5534: fix misleading grep invocation

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

Yes, there are grep versions that behave differently... how did you guess?

I am in the middle of an extended investigation trying to assess how
feasible it would be to use a native Win32 port of BusyBox (started by
long-time Git contributor Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy) in Git for Windows to
execute the many, many remaining Unix shell scripts that are a core part
of Git (including crucial functionality such as bisect, rebase, stash and
submodule, for which we suffer portability and performance problems).

I've long thought that BusyBox was primarily about size and not
about performance, but I can imagine that it would be a big win to
be able to run things like "mkdir" and "rm" without fork/exec, as it
is likely to be extermely more expensive than preparing to call and
actually making system calls mkdir(2), unlink(2), etc.

Interesting.  I learned a new thing today, but apparently that
FEATURE_SH_NOFORK was not a very new development.  I do not think
anybody is crazy enough to attempt making Git a nofork applet,
though ;-)