Re: [PATCH v3] To make GIT-VERSION-FILE, search for git more widely

> Quoting Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>:
>
>> I actually like the rationale you mentioned in the thread (perhaps in the
>> original proposed commit message as well) that we should ask the freshly
>> built git to describe the version if available, falling back to whichever
>> git of random vintage found on the original $PATH.
>>
>> If it weren't for $X [*1*], my preference would have been (as I said in
>> the discussion) to run ./git if available locally.
>>
>> But I think your "deal with details like $X to figure out the name of the
>> freshly built git binary is in the Makefile, and pass it via GIT variable
>> to GIT-VERSION-GEN" is a sensible approach.  I do not remember if your
>> patch gave precedence to an installed git on the original $PATH or a
>> freshly built one, though---the precedent probably does not matter in
>> practice, and favoring the one found on $PATH over freshly built one does
>> have an advantage if we were to support cross compilation (I have a
>> suspicion that the current setup does not).
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> Junio, I think you forgot to take a follow-up action on this thread after sending this message.  The patch favors the git program in the current directory.