Re: [PATCH] execv_git_cmd(): also try PATH if everything else fails.

> Andreas Ericsson schrieb:
>> Scott Parish wrote:
>>> I'm tempted to try a different approach. What if instead of looping
>>> and building up strings of all the different absolute paths we want
>>> to try we just prepend to PATH with the correct extra precedence,
>>> and then call execvp on the command we want?
>>>
>>
>> That's how the original git --exec-dir feature got implemented. 
>> There's even a nifty function for it in git.c; prepend_to_path(). It's 
>> a provably workable solution.
> 
> The reason that this was done is for the sake of shell scripts: They 
> need to have the path that was finally decided as exec-path in $PATH.
> 
> But I can't think of any negative side effect if *all* exec-path 
> candidates are in $PATH. It's important, though, that all paths are 
> absolute because the tools chdir every now and then.
>