Re: [POOL] Who likes running Git without make install?

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>
Date: Jul 2, 2006, 11:30 UTC
Message-ID: <20060702113057.GF29115@pasky.or.cz>
In-Reply-To: <7vhd20dg2g.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Dear diary, on Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 02:05:46AM CEST, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that...

> That's fixed in ancient past in git timescale.  Why are you
> bringing it up again? ;-)

Because, it is, well, not fixed? ;-) (Apparently.)

Dear diary, on Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 02:08:07AM CEST, I got a letter where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that...

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> Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> writes:
> 
> > Dear diary, on Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 08:48:31AM CEST, I got a letter
> > where Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> said that...
> >> I remember myself getting utterly discusted when I saw the
> >> inclusion of the build-time blib directory in the search path in
> >> some other Perl code outside git.
> >
> > Well, yes, it is ugly, but it was really cool that we could have used
> > Git without installing it anywhere.
> >
> > But perhaps that's just me refusing to break his old ways of doing
> > things. Does anyone else care about it? (And why?)
> 
> Well, for a quick test to see if I haven't broken anything, I
> use a new shell and do ". ./+denv" in my git repository where
> that file has something like this:
> 
>         $ cat ./+denv
>         :
> 
>         GIT_EXEC_PATH=`pwd`
>         PATH=`pwd`:/usr/bin:/bin
> 
>         export GIT_EXEC_PATH PATH
> 
> So to a certain degree, yes I do care.

But it is currently broken:

xpasky@machine[0:0]~/git-pb$ rm -rf /home/xpasky/lib/perl5/ xpasky@machine[0:0]~/git-pb$ ./git-mv Can't locate Git.pm in @INC (...)

(And I can't see any change that could aim to fix it.)

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				Petr "Pasky" Baudis
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