From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 01:54:05 GMT
Subject: Re: setup_path()
Message-ID: <20080213.175405.10792562.davem@davemloft.net>
In-Reply-To: <7v3arwpqxj.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 12:00:40 -0800

> Yeah, Johannes Sixt had a patch to do exactly that earlier
> 
> 	Message-ID: <47B182C1.60006@viscovery.net>
> 	http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/73651
> 
> and I think it is a good idea to apply it.

Me too.

In fact people can easily end up unintentionally using different
versions of GIT.  For example in my case I had the distribution's GIT
installed in /usr/bin/git et al., then I installed the current
upstream version of GIT in my home directory.

A different version of GIT gets used when you run things locally
vs. doing things remotely over SSH.  And I didn't notice this until I
uninstalled the git-core package on my system.