On 3/28/25 1:30 PM, Johannes Sixt wrote:

Indeed, it seems that this override is only needed on Windows. Dscho, is
there a non-obvious reason that 'exec' and 'open' are overridden on all
platforms?

-- Hannes

(resending to avoid HTML ...)

Looking at git-gui's history, I see no deliberate decision to alter the 
native path search on any platform except Windows, just no effort ever 
to leave non-Windows platforms alone. The buggy Cygwin code is part of 
what I excised from git-gui in 2023 (commit 7145c654 on the git-gui tree).

  I'll plan to send a patch for gitk to revert non-windows platforms to 
native functions in a couple of days. This idea applies also to git-gui.

Mark