From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:41:51 GMT
Subject: git-* in test scripts (was On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins)
Message-ID: <20080828234151.GG29609@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vmyiwd8ot.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 04:24:50PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Test scripts are executed in a special environment whose GIT_EXEC_PATH
> points at the top of the build tree, where all git-foo lives.

I am not sure how GIT_EXEC_PATH is relevant. We put the git top-level
directory in the PATH, which is why "git-foo" works at all in the test
scripts. But the install by default does _not_ put those commands in
the PATH. So the test scripts serve as a poor example of how to use
git. The commands contained within them would not run in an ordinary git
installation.

-Peff