Re: "git stash" is not known to git

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jul 30, 2007, 11:03 UTC
Message-ID: <20070730110354.GA11676@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <86bqdutb7r.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 12:52:40PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:

> How does it calculate its exec path?  It would appear that it would
> not contain _either_ /usr/local/bin _or_ /opt/git/bin in my
> installation if it can't find git-stash (which should be statable in
> both places).

See exec_cmd.c:execv_git_cmd. It checks in order:
  1. --exec-path= on command line
  2. $GIT_EXEC_PATH from environment
  3. GIT_EXEC_PATH defined at compile-time (set by Makefile from
      $(gitexecdir), which is generally the same as $(bindir))

So it should have /opt/git/bin in your case, but it's possible since that is a Makefile variable that you failed to recompile correctly after changing its value.

> Have a command handy for checking the exec path?

git --exec-path

-Peff