From: Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 17:36:00 GMT
Subject: Re: [bug] git cannot find "git pull"?
Message-ID: <20090613173600.GL5076@inocybe.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <4A33E069.4050401@garzik.org>

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Found it!  A forgotten package I created, a collective of shell
> scripts, was setting GIT_EXEC_PATH=/usr/local/bin.

Phew.  I was worried I might have to start drinking much earlier than
usual today. ;)

> Given that /usr/local/bin/*git* has not existed on my systems for a
> long time, it appears that this is a new behavior, being a bit more
> strict in complaining about an invalid GIT_EXEC_PATH, rather than
> simply falling back to the internal compiled default
> (/usr/libexec/git-core).

Without looking closely at the make files and build logic, is it
perhaps something caused by the previous Fedora git-1.6.0.x packages
passing gitexecdir=%{_bindir} to make, while the F-11 and newer
packages do not set any gitexecdir?

> Things are working again now that the local GIT_EXEC_PATH export is
> removed.

Glad you found the culprit.

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