From: Paul Smith <paul@mad-scientist.net>
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 13:18:14 GMT
Subject: Re: git 2.9.2: is RUNTIME_PREFIX supposed to work?
Message-ID: <1474982294.3190.32.camel@mad-scientist.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAPc5daU_nnHRjtC02bxqRaoU+0Rgi7pS6e912Fqk-Xy=qdKWFA@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 2016-09-26 at 14:57 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 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?