From: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:39:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] system_path(): simplify using strip_path_suffix(), and add suffix "git"
Message-ID: <499DC375.60105@kdbg.org>
In-Reply-To: <b91ca090ef4eed9e457b579df2e3fbede3d26299.1235070304u.git.johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

Johannes Schindelin schrieb:
> The real change is to add the suffix "git", so that a runtime prefix will
> be computed correctly even when the executable was called in /git/ as is
> the case in msysGit (Windows insists to search the current directory
> before the PATH when looking for an executable).

msysgit is important enough to be supported by upstream git, in 
particular since it is *the* user of RUNTIME_PREFIX, so that this 
special-casing is warranted. Therefore:

Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>

-- Hannes