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Re: git 2.9.2: is RUNTIME_PREFIX supposed to work?

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Paul Smith <paul@mad-scientist.net>
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Sep 27, 2016, 13:18 UTC
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On Mon, 2016-09-26 at 14:57 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Paul Smith <paul@mad-scientist.net> wrote:
> > 
> > Hi all.  I'm trying to create a relocatable installation of Git 2.9.2,
> > so I can copy it anywhere and it continues to run without any problem.
> > This is on GNU/Linux systems, FWIW.
> 
> I had an impression that the setting was only to support MS Windows.

Hm.  You may be right.  If so that's too bad, because a relocatable Git is very handy even on UNIX systems.  Is there a reason for invoking the subcommands by providing the plain command ("fetch", "merge-base") as argv[0], rather than giving the fully-qualified path to a Git command?

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  5. Junio C HamanoSep 27, 2016
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