Re: [PATCH 0/11] Miscellaneous MinGW port fallout

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 13, 2007, 22:22 UTC
Message-ID: <7v8x51ss3s.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711132145400.4362@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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> On Tue, 13 Nov 2007, Johannes Sixt wrote:
>> On Tuesday 13 November 2007 22:10, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> > Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at> writes:
>> > > On Tuesday 13 November 2007 21:04, Johannes Sixt wrote:
>> > > ... and so allow that the compiled binaries are installed in any
>> > > directory that the user chooses.
>> >
>> > If you can do that without breaking the tests (specifically, the
>> > test script should pick up the version of git you just built,
>> > not from /usr/bin nor /usr/local/stow/git/bin) that would be
>> > great.
>> 
>> Sorry, I don't understand your statement. Do you see any tests breaking?
>
> I guess what Junio is getting at: if your changes could lead to our not 
> needing to hard code defaults, that would be awesome.

Yes. Another thing I said was that it would be grave regression for testability if the change leads git to look at somewhere else other than it was told to look via GIT_EXEC_PATH environment,