Re: --exec-path not always honored

From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Mar 17, 2009, 10:34 UTC
Message-ID: <49BF7CAF.6060505@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0903171117480.6393@intel-tinevez-2-302>

Johannes Schindelin schrieb:

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> On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> 
>> I noticed this failure if I run git from the build directory:
>>
>> $ ./git --exec-path=. gc
> 
> I am not sure if "." is what you think it is; I imagine it would be 
> $GIT_DIR by the time the PATH variable is adjusted.

This would be *very* bogus, wouldn't it?

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> Could you try again with
> 
> 	$ ./git --exec-path="$(pwd)" gc
> 
> ?

It fails in the same way:

$ ./git --exec-path=$(pwd) gc usage: git pack-objects blah blah... error: failed to run repack

-- Hannes