Re: [PATCH] [GITK] use "git <command>" instead of "git-<command>"

Uwe Zeisberger <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> writes:

For something like gitk that lives for some time and spawns git number of times, it is considered a good practice to:

 (1) Run "git --exec-path" at the beginning, to learn
     GIT_EXEC_PATH;
 (2) Prepend that to PATH;
 (3) And invoke "git-foo" commands in the rest of the script.

This saves an extra fork/exec (gitk -> git -> git-foo). I was told qgit already does this.

Note that we may end up leaving some git-* commands in /usr/bin while moving the rest to elsewhere (e.g. /usr/lib/git-core/exec/), so (2) and (3) cannot be safely substituted with

 (BAD) invoke "$GIT_EXEC_PATH/git-foo" instead.

I usually prefer patches to gitk to come through paulus, so please CC: when sending patches to gitk ("git whatchanged gitk" would give you the e-mail address).