From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sun, 08 May 2011 16:50:13 GMT
Subject: Re: git alias fails if non-accessible directory is in PATH
Message-ID: <7v7ha1uofu.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <iq5p6k$73f$1@dough.gmane.org>

Sebastian Schuberth <sschuberth@gmail.com> writes:

> # git config alias.br branch
> $ git br
> fatal: cannot exec 'git-br': Permission denied
>
> Is this by design, or a bug?

The "tangent" part of

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/171755

and then the discussion that begins at

    http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/171755/focus=171767

may explain the current list concensus.