Re: intended use of "git --exec-path"?

> 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.