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Re: "git stash" is not known to git

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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Jul 30, 2007, 10:37 UTC
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<20070730103720.GA11309@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 12:24:51PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:
> On the other hand, I am quite sure that while "git stash" did not
> work, "git-stash" had no problem.

Right. git-stash is in your PATH, but not in git's exec path (which is _not_ the same as PATH).

> So something bogus in git's PATH lookup would definitely appear to be
> going on: it should be hard to get the symlinks messed up badly enough
> to have one work and not the other.
Git doesn't look for subcommands in the PATH.
-Peff
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