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Re: [PATCH] [GITK] use "git <command>" instead of "git-<command>"

From
Uwe Zeisberger <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Date
Jan 26, 2006, 14:26 UTC
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<20060126142615.GA12631@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Uwe Zeisberger <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> writes:
> 
> > Otherwise gitk is not able to work with installations using a gitexecdir
> > different from bindir.
> 
> For something like gitk that lives for some time and spawns git
> number of times, it is considered a good practice to:
> 
>  (1) Run "git --exec-path" at the beginning, to learn
>      GIT_EXEC_PATH;
>  (2) Prepend that to PATH;
>  (3) And invoke "git-foo" commands in the rest of the script.

(I remember darkly that was already discussed, but I cannot find the thread ATM.)

Just to get the patch right:
If
 - PATH=$(HOME)/bin:/usr/bin
 - GIT_EXEC_PATH=/usr/bin
then gitk should use
	PATH=/usr/bin:$(HOME)/bin:/usr/bin
to call git-<command> and
	PATH=$(HOME)/bin:/usr/bin
to call the rest, right?

Best regards Uwe

-- 
Uwe Zeisberger

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  1. [GITK] use "git <command>" instead of "git-<command>"Uwe Zeisberger, Jan 25, 2006
  2. Junio C HamanoJan 25, 2006
  3. Uwe ZeisbergerJan 26, 2006

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