Re: Ramifications of a git-sh-setup outside the PATH

From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 28, 2008, 12:01 UTC
Message-ID: <20080628120121.GB3489@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <20080627140027.BIA12244@m4500-01.uchicago.edu>

Jonathan Nieder, Fri, Jun 27, 2008 21:00:27 +0200:

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> Hi gitsters,
> 
> I noticed in the release notes to Git 1.6.0 that dashed-form commands
> are moving to a libexecdir outside the PATH. I have been using Git
> with nd/dashless applied for about a month, and it does work well
> (thanks!). There was one little glitch: to use hg-fast-export.sh from
> fast-export.git (of repo.or.cz), I had to put git-sh-setup in the PATH.
> 
> I wanted to just change the ". git-sh-setup" line to ". git sh-setup",
> but of course that will not work. Am I missing something?

Try

    . "$(git --exec-path)/git-sh-setup"

"git-sh-setup" is not a command, but a Bourne Shell script you can use in your scripts by including it. So ". git sh-setup" just tries to _include_ file "git" (and will try $PATH and current directory) with positional argument "sh-setup" (see man 1 bash, for example).