From: Uwe Zeisberger <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 14:26:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [GITK] use "git <command>" instead of "git-<command>"
Message-ID: <20060126142615.GA12631@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7v3bjcws5o.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 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

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Uwe Zeisberger

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