From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:29:01 GMT
Subject: Re: t7005 and vi in GIT_EXEC_PATH
Message-ID: <7v4pfscvz6.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v3avcefg9.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Brian Gernhardt <benji@silverinsanity.com> writes:
>
>> I'm sorry, I should have been more clear.  I was referring to the
>> GIT_EXEC_PATH build variable, not the environment variable.  The git
>> wrapper always adds the path determined during build to the front of
>> PATH.  When I was changing my build script, this got set to "/usr/
>> local/bin" (I usually use /usr/local/stow/git, instead).  Since I have
>> a /usr/local/bin/vim, PATH for git-commit.sh during the test was:
>>
>> - my git build directory
>> - /usr/local/bin (containing a symlink vi -> vim)
>> - the t/trash directory, added by the test via `PATH=".:$PATH"`
>> (containing the test vi script)
>> - my normal path
>
> Maybe that is what is broken.  t/test-lib.sh makes the
> environment variable point at the build directory, and that
> should override the path that is compiled in, shouldn't it?

Ah, nevermind.  I did not see the other messages in the thread.