From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:18:08 GMT
Subject: Re: git svn errors out with git-cat-file "usage" message
Message-ID: <46a038f90904300018u7101943blef084dc907a04c8d@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <49F8C127.4000400@drmicha.warpmail.net>

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Michael J Gruber
<git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
> 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?

cheers,


m
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