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Re: [PATCH] Let git-help prefer man-pages installed with this version of git

From
David Brown <git@davidb.org>
Date
Dec 7, 2007, 16:22 UTC
Message-ID
<20071207162204.GB25490@old.davidb.org>
In-Reply-To
<20071207161919.GA25490@old.davidb.org>
On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 08:19:19AM -0800, David Brown wrote:
> Or, git gets installed out of path in its own tree, and then the 'git'
> executable itself is symlinked somewhere into the path.  I know this
> happens, because this is what IT ended up doing.
   This is what IT ended up doing, where I work.

I haven't run into the problem this patch fixes because the strange out-of-path git is the only version of git available on the systems.

Dave
Previous: David Brown
Message 10 of 10 in “Let git-help prefer man-pages installed with this version of git”
  1. Let git-help prefer man-pages installed with this version of gitSergei Organov, Dec 6, 2007
  2. Johannes SchindelinDec 6, 2007
  3. Sergei OrganovDec 7, 2007
  4. Junio C HamanoDec 7, 2007
  5. Sergei OrganovDec 7, 2007
  6. Andreas EricssonDec 7, 2007
  7. Sergei OrganovDec 7, 2007
  8. Junio C HamanoDec 7, 2007
  9. David BrownDec 7, 2007
  10. David BrownDec 7, 2007

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