Re: [PATCH 2/2] Remember and use GIT_EXEC_PATH on exec()'s

From: Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@watson.ibm.com>
Date: Jan 10, 2006, 20:31 UTC
Message-ID: <1136925066.11717.605.camel@brick.watson.ibm.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0601102054200.27363@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 20:55 +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@watson.ibm.com> writes:
> > 
> > > git programs exec other git programs, but they also exec non-git
> > > programs.  I think it is not appropriate to change PATH (via
> > > prepend_to_path) because this may result in unexpected behavior when
> > > exec'ing non-git programs:
> > 
> > This is a valid concern.
> 
> Why? If what is prepended to PATH only contains git programs?
>

If git is installed with prefix=/usr, then that won't be the case.

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Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@watson.ibm.com>