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Re: [PATCH] "git shell" won't work, need "git-shell"

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TVTommi Virtanen <tv@eagain.net>
Date
Aug 24, 2008, 22:25 UTC
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On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 02:20:20PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I do not have particular preference either way.  What people wanted was to
> have smaller number of git-foo on $PATH, and especially as "git-shell" is
> not something people would be typing from their command line, so I dunno.

That's true, but I kinda think libexec is something only used *internally*, and you can't claim /etc/passwd to be internal to git..

At the minimum, git-shell(1) should explain that one needs to use the libexec path.

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  1. "git shell" won't work, need "git-shell"Tommi Virtanen, Aug 24, 2008
  2. Junio C HamanoAug 24, 2008
  3. Tommi VirtanenAug 24, 2008
  4. Junio C HamanoAug 24, 2008
  5. Tommi VirtanenAug 24, 2008
  6. Johannes SchindelinAug 25, 2008
  7. Paolo BonziniAug 25, 2008
  8. Johannes SchindelinAug 25, 2008
  9. Mikael MagnussonAug 25, 2008
  10. Johannes SchindelinAug 25, 2008
  11. Johannes SchindelinAug 25, 2008
  12. 1/2 git wrapper: Make while loop more reader-friendlyJohannes Schindelin, Aug 25, 2008
  13. 2/2 git wrapper: execute git-shell when argv[1] is '-c'Johannes Schindelin, Aug 25, 2008
  14. Tommi VirtanenAug 25, 2008
  15. Johannes SchindelinAug 25, 2008
  16. Tommi VirtanenAug 25, 2008
  17. Johannes SchindelinAug 26, 2008
  18. Matthieu MoyAug 26, 2008
  19. Junio C HamanoAug 26, 2008
  20. Mike RalphsonAug 26, 2008
  21. Petr BaudisAug 25, 2008
  22. Dmitry PotapovAug 25, 2008
  23. Tommi VirtanenAug 25, 2008
  24. Dmitry PotapovAug 25, 2008
  25. Johannes SchindelinAug 25, 2008
  26. Dmitry PotapovAug 25, 2008
  27. Mike HommeyAug 25, 2008
  28. Dmitry V. LevinOct 28, 2008

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