From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 18:27:44 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics)
Message-ID: <471F8EA0.9030902@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <20071024160852.GA759@srparish.net>

Scott Parish wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 05:51:28AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
>> * js/PATH (Sun Oct 21 22:59:01 2007 +0100) 1 commit
>>  - execv_git_cmd(): also try PATH if everything else fails.
>>
>> I do not quite get why this is needed; need to go back to the
>> discussion myself.  On the other hand, I found the alternative
>> approach suggested on the list very interesting (i.e. instead of
>> "also try", just letting exec*p use PATH, relying on the fact
>> that we do prepend-to-path anyway).  What happened to it?  Was
>> there a downside?
> 
> The main downside that was raised was MingW compatibility, but
> Schindelin and Sixt both said that it could wait until further
> work is done porting to MingW.
> 
> Should i resend my string of patches? I've seen people numbering
> their patches, should i do that as well?
> 

'git format-patch -n' will do it for you. I take it you've found
out about git-send-email already?

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