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Can you explain? A shell isn't supposed to be installing things on it's own... (Assuming you're talking about zsh or bash when you say shell.)
by asvitkine 5y ago
Can you explain? A shell isn't supposed to be installing things on it's own... (Assuming you're talking about zsh or bash when you say shell.)
- loa_in_ 5y agoYeah, even zsh doesn't do this by default
- jyrkesh 5y agoThere's a lot of different ways to install Git on a lot of different OSes, and some of them put helper shell scripts down by default.
- Sharparam 5y agoThat isn't Git installing things though, that is third-party Git distributions bundling things along with Git.
- jyrkesh 5y agoI'm aware, which is why I phrased it like I did. A lot of folks don't know or understand the distinction when they're installing Git (or installing something else that happens to bring Git with it). The overarching point is that the shell itself is not installing anything at shell runtime. E.g. it's the Git Bash installer, not opening `bash`.
- ratcline 5y agoIt's not doing it on it's own, I believe what they're referring to is a a pre-configured distribution of a shell packaged with some distributions of Git, for some OSes.