Re: "git stash" is not known to git

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jul 30, 2007, 10:06 UTC
Message-ID: <20070730100609.GB8829@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <863az6uscz.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 11:57:00AM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:

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> > This looks like an incorrect installation, with git-stash in your
> > $PATH, but not in the place git looks for its commands (I don't
> > remember the exact mechanism).
> 
> I don't think so: in git.c we have at lines 362ff
> 
>                 { "show-branch", cmd_show_branch, RUN_SETUP },
>                 { "show", cmd_show, RUN_SETUP | USE_PAGER },
>                 { "stripspace", cmd_stripspace },
>                 { "symbolic-ref", cmd_symbolic_ref, RUN_SETUP },
> 
> So it really seems like stash is not known to git.c.  Of course, I
> have no real clue about git.c's operation (or I'd have proferred a
> patch) and not right now the time to look further.

That list is for builtins; git-stash is an external shell script. See execv_git_cmd for the list of places where it is looking for git-stash.

Since I seem to recall you working some symlink magic with your installation in a recent message, that might be related. Is it just git-stash, or are other scripts failing (try "git status")?

-Peff