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Re: git svn errors out with git-cat-file "usage" message

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Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 30, 2009, 07:18 UTC
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On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:

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> But I just re-read your original report, and there's some inconsistency:
>
> git-svn triggers cat-file's usage message which says "git-cat-file ...".
> The dash indicates that it is a git cat-file before v1.6.0.1-13-g34baebc
> (where the dash was removed), so it's definitely not the current maint
> you think you are using.
>
> Do you have older ubuntu git packages installed in $PATH?
Bingo! Yes,

~$ which git-cat-file /usr/bin/git-cat-file ~$ /usr/bin/git version git version 1.5.6.3

now that's really weird. git from ~/bin is using git-cat-file from /usr/bin instead of ~/libexec/git-core ... how is the libexec path set in the PATH during the execution of the script?

the funny thing is that Ubuntu wants to have git-core in place if you're rebuilding kernel packages. I don't need to rebuild my kernel anymore but I am sure this is an issue for others. What's the trick? Add the libexec/git-core to the PATH before /usr/bin? Should git internally append libexec/git-core earlier in the search path?

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m
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