From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 04:38:19 GMT
Subject: Re: intended use of "git --exec-path"?
Message-ID: <20071024043819.GI14735@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <20071024043224.GR16291@srparish.net>

Scott Parish <sRp@srparish.net> wrote:
> "git --exec-path" presently prints out the highest priority path
> to find executable in. That's a what; i'm curious why and when it
> should be used. Basically i'm wondering if its still useful, and
> what, if anything, it should be printing.

git-gui uses it.  git-gui runs git-* by prefixing it with the
exec path.  It also scans the first line of the file if we are on
Windows and the "executable" doesn't end in ".exe" so it can figure
out what process to run it through.

So it really can't go away.

-- 
Shawn.