Re: Mercurial 0.4b vs git patchbomb benchmark

From: Valdis . Kletnieks
Date: Mon May 02 2005 - 12:01:59 EST


On Mon, 02 May 2005 11:49:32 EDT, Bill Davidsen said:
> Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 01:39:59PM -0700, Matt Mackall wrote:

> > -#!/usr/bin/python
> > +#!/usr/bin/env python
> > #
> > # mercurial - a minimal scalable distributed SCM
> > # v0.4b "oedipa maas"
>
> Could you explain why this is necessary or desirable? I looked at what
> env does, and I am missing the point of duplicating bash normal
> behaviour regarding definition of per-process environment entries.

Most likely, his python lives elsewhere than /usr/bin, and the 'env' call
results in causing a walk across $PATH to find it....

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