From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:04:46 GMT
Subject: Re: git-* in test scripts
Message-ID: <7v7ia0d6u9.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080828234151.GG29609@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 04:24:50PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Test scripts are executed in a special environment whose GIT_EXEC_PATH
>> points at the top of the build tree, where all git-foo lives.
>
> I am not sure how GIT_EXEC_PATH is relevant. We put the git top-level
> directory in the PATH, which is why "git-foo" works at all in the test
> scripts. But the install by default does _not_ put those commands in
> the PATH. So the test scripts serve as a poor example of how to use
> git. The commands contained within them would not run in an ordinary git
> installation.

Well, I was merely replying to your message.  If you admit that tests are
special and a poor example, why did you bring it up? ;-)