From: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:37:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [Fundamental problem with relative system paths] [PATCH 2/2] run-command (Windows): Run dashless "git <cmd>"
Message-ID: <1217277453.488e2e0db0f41@webmail.nextra.at>
In-Reply-To: <1217224228-31303-2-git-send-email-prohaska@zib.de>

Zitat von Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>:

> This might solve a fundamental problem we have with the
> computation of system directories based on relative paths
> in combination with the new gitexecpath 'libexec/git-core'.
> The problem is that the program 'git' is hardlinked to
> directories with different depth.  It is either used as
> 'bin/git' (1 directory) or as 'libexec/git-core/git-*'
> (2 directories).  Thus, using the same relative path
> in system_path() yields different results when starting from the
> two locations.  I recognized the problem because /etc/gitconfig
> is no longer be read.
>
> The patch below might fix the problem by always calling 'bin/git'
> for builtin commands.  The computation in system_path() would
> always start from 'bin' and thus yields predictable results.  I
> am not sure however if it fully solves the problem because other
> code paths might run the dashed forms directly.

This paragraph should go into the commit message.

> I think the only way to verify correctness would be to stop
> installing the dashed forms for builtins.  If they were not
> installed they could not be called.  The only entry point for all
> builtins would be 'bin/git'.  I don't think we want to stop
> installing the dashed forms right away.
>
> So what shall we do?

Your patches make a lot of sense.

> -- 8< --
> We prefer running the dashless form, so we should use it in
> MinGW's start_command(), too.
>
> Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>

Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>

-- Hannes