6 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/changes/bug30840 b/changes/bug30840
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..562b0fbd93
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changes/bug30840
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+  o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
+    - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
+      have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
+      Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
diff --git a/scripts/git/git-merge-forward.sh b/scripts/git/git-merge-forward.sh
index 15af6f3dba..c9ec55ac6f 100755
--- a/scripts/git/git-merge-forward.sh
+++ b/scripts/git/git-merge-forward.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 
 ##############################
 # Configuration (change me!) #
diff --git a/scripts/git/git-pull-all.sh b/scripts/git/git-pull-all.sh
index 6fe7e59812..e5ba96a059 100755
--- a/scripts/git/git-pull-all.sh
+++ b/scripts/git/git-pull-all.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 
 ##################################
 # User configuration (change me) #
diff --git a/scripts/git/git-push-all.sh b/scripts/git/git-push-all.sh
index 0701b27b59..2030a600ff 100755
--- a/scripts/git/git-push-all.sh
+++ b/scripts/git/git-push-all.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 
 # The remote upstream branch on which git.torproject.org/tor.git points to.
 UPSTREAM_BRANCH=${TOR_UPSTREAM_REMOTE_NAME:-"upstream"}
diff --git a/scripts/git/pre-commit.git-hook b/scripts/git/pre-commit.git-hook
index b285776c04..2a29837198 100755
--- a/scripts/git/pre-commit.git-hook
+++ b/scripts/git/pre-commit.git-hook
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 #
 # To install this script, copy it to .git/hooks/pre-commit in local copy of
 # tor git repo and make sure it has permission to execute.
diff --git a/scripts/git/pre-push.git-hook b/scripts/git/pre-push.git-hook
index c9e72a4d43..51b0c896c8 100755
--- a/scripts/git/pre-push.git-hook
+++ b/scripts/git/pre-push.git-hook
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/bash
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
 
 # git pre-push hook script to:
 # 1) prevent "fixup!" and "squash!" commit from ending up in master, release-*