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Re: intended use of "git --exec-path"?

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Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date
Oct 24, 2007, 08:08 UTC
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Scott Parish wrote:
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> "git --exec-path" presently prints out the highest priority path
> to find executable in. That's a what; i'm curious why and when it
> should be used. Basically i'm wondering if its still useful, and
> what, if anything, it should be printing.
>

git supports having all its "helpers" in a separate path. Since there were performance concerns with having scripts call the git wrapper for every invocation of every git program, the --exec-path option was added when the wrapper was rewritten in C.

Unless it's a very tight loop that runs non-builtin programs, there's really no reason for scripts to use the git-whatever form of commands, but the ability to do so should probably be retained more or less forever. See 8e49d50388211a0f3e7286f6ee600bf7736f4814 for details.

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