diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
index dba3c1570..be6193162 100644
--- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
+++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.bash
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-#!bash
-#
 # bash/zsh completion support for core Git.
 #
 # Copyright (C) 2006,2007 Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
diff --git a/contrib/completion/git-completion.tcsh b/contrib/completion/git-completion.tcsh
index eaacaf0c3..6104a42a2 100644
--- a/contrib/completion/git-completion.tcsh
+++ b/contrib/completion/git-completion.tcsh
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-#!tcsh
-#
 # tcsh completion support for core Git.
 #
 # Copyright (C) 2012 Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@gmail.com>
diff --git a/git-mergetool--lib.sh b/git-mergetool--lib.sh
index a280f4981..c45a02030 100644
--- a/git-mergetool--lib.sh
+++ b/git-mergetool--lib.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-# git-mergetool--lib is a library for common merge tool functions
+# git-mergetool--lib is a shell library for common merge tool functions
 
 : ${MERGE_TOOLS_DIR=$(git --exec-path)/mergetools}
 
diff --git a/git-parse-remote.sh b/git-parse-remote.sh
index 0e87e0915..55fe8d56c 100644
--- a/git-parse-remote.sh
+++ b/git-parse-remote.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-#!/bin/sh
+# This is a shell library to calculate the remote repository and
+# upstream branch that should be pulled by "git pull" from the current
+# branch.
 
 # git-ls-remote could be called from outside a git managed repository;
 # this would fail in that case and would issue an error message.
diff --git a/git-rebase--am.sh b/git-rebase--am.sh
index 34e3102fc..a4f683a5d 100644
--- a/git-rebase--am.sh
+++ b/git-rebase--am.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-#!/bin/sh
+# This shell script fragment is sourced by git-rebase to implement
+# its default, fast, patch-based, non-interactive mode.
 #
 # Copyright (c) 2010 Junio C Hamano.
 #
diff --git a/git-rebase--interactive.sh b/git-rebase--interactive.sh
index 3c6bed9a2..43c19e082 100644
--- a/git-rebase--interactive.sh
+++ b/git-rebase--interactive.sh
@@ -1,11 +1,8 @@
-#!/bin/sh
+# This shell script fragment is sourced by git-rebase to implement
+# its interactive mode.  "git rebase --interactive" makes it easy
+# to fix up commits in the middle of a series and rearrange commits.
 #
 # Copyright (c) 2006 Johannes E. Schindelin
-
-# SHORT DESCRIPTION
-#
-# This script makes it easy to fix up commits in the middle of a series,
-# and rearrange commits.
 #
 # The original idea comes from Eric W. Biederman, in
 # http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/22407
diff --git a/git-rebase--merge.sh b/git-rebase--merge.sh
index 16d18176e..e7d96de9a 100644
--- a/git-rebase--merge.sh
+++ b/git-rebase--merge.sh
@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
-#!/bin/sh
+# This shell script fragment is sourced by git-rebase to implement
+# its merge-based non-interactive mode that copes well with renamed
+# files.
 #
 # Copyright (c) 2010 Junio C Hamano.
 #
diff --git a/git-sh-i18n.sh b/git-sh-i18n.sh
index 6a27f6813..e6c3116e1 100644
--- a/git-sh-i18n.sh
+++ b/git-sh-i18n.sh
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
-#!/bin/sh
+# This shell library is Git's interface to gettext.sh. See po/README
+# for usage instructions.
 #
 # Copyright (c) 2010 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
 #
-# This is Git's interface to gettext.sh. See po/README for usage
-# instructions.
 
 # Export the TEXTDOMAIN* data that we need for Git
 TEXTDOMAIN=git
diff --git a/git-sh-setup.sh b/git-sh-setup.sh
index ebfe8f7a4..190a5394b 100644
--- a/git-sh-setup.sh
+++ b/git-sh-setup.sh
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-#
-# This is included in commands that either have to be run from the toplevel
-# of the repository, or with GIT_DIR environment variable properly.
-# If the GIT_DIR does not look like the right correct git-repository,
-# it dies.
+# This shell scriplet is meant to be included by other shell scripts
+# to set up some variables pointing at the normal git directories and
+# a few helper shell functions.
 
 # Having this variable in your environment would break scripts because
 # you would cause "cd" to be taken to unexpected places.  If you
diff --git a/t/test-lib.sh b/t/test-lib.sh
index c306bd066..c3e07b9e1 100644
--- a/t/test-lib.sh
+++ b/t/test-lib.sh
@@ -573,11 +573,9 @@ then
 
 	make_valgrind_symlink () {
 		# handle only executables, unless they are shell libraries that
-		# need to be in the exec-path.  We will just use "#!" as a
-		# guess for a shell-script, since we have no idea what the user
-		# may have configured as the shell path.
+		# need to be in the exec-path.
 		test -x "$1" ||
-		test "#!" = "$(head -c 2 <"$1")" ||
+		test "# " = "$(head -c 2 <"$1")" ||
 		return;
 
 		base=$(basename "$1")