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Re: git's directory is _prepended_ to PATH when called with an absolute path

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Andreas Krey <a.krey@gmx.de>
Date
Apr 22, 2015, 05:47 UTC
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On Tue, 21 Apr 2015 18:37:29 +0000, David Rodríguez wrote: ...

> This causes issues with Ruby git hooks, because Ruby version managers 
> rely on custom settings in PATH to select the Ruby executable,

Even if git wouldn't modify PATH this is still a broken way to do that. What ruby to execute a hook with is a property of the hook, not of the user context invoking it.

Andreas
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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800
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