Re: [RFC/PATCH] Documentation: Don't assume git-sh-setup and git-parse-remote are in the PATH

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jun 29, 2008, 05:38 UTC
Message-ID: <20080629053823.GA8262@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vvdztmfrk.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 02:05:51PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> > What do you need exec-path in PATH for?
> 
> When git-parse-remote is not installed in $(bindir) anymore, the shell
> script library won't be found on user's $PATH in general.

I think the right question is:

  PATH=$PATH:$(git --exec-path)
  . git-sh-setup

or

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

Generally, I would prefer the latter because it has no side effects. For now at least, though, shell scripts probably want git's exec-path in their PATH so "git-foo" invocations don't break.

-Peff