From: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:31:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/11] Allow ETC_GITCONFIG to be a relative path.
Message-ID: <200711151931.29029.johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
In-Reply-To: <9D2813B9-8E86-4551-94BF-2B04F5FBB141@zib.de>

On Thursday 15 November 2007 07:53, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
> Now I'm wondering if we could make path relocation a bit more
> explicit.  How about doing something like.
>
> 	system_wide = relocate_path(ETC_GITCONFIG);
>
> and relocate_path(const char *) would expand a format
> string in path.  At this point I see only a single %s
> that would be expanded with the install prefix.  If
> ETC_GITCONFIG is "%s/etc/gitconfig" relocate path will return
> "C:/msysgit/bin/etc/gitconfig" for my above example.  It is
> basically a printf with the install prefix path.

I don't see the problem that you are trying to solve.

-- Hannes