Re: "git stash" is not known to git
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> We never actually look in the regular PATH since we call execv_git_cmd
> (although we do still munge the PATH, apparently so shell scripts can
> use git-foo syntax; see 77cb17e9). This means you can't drop "git-foo"
> into your PATH and have it work as "git foo".
Would this be a good replacement?
diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
index 2433355..25b8274 100644
--- a/git.c
+++ b/git.c
@@ -448,11 +448,11 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
cmd = argv[0];
/*
- * We search for git commands in the following order:
- * - git_exec_path()
- * - the path of the "git" command if we could find it
- * in $0
- * - the regular PATH.
+ * We execute external git command via execv_git_cmd(),
+ * which looks at "--exec-path" option, GIT_EXEC_PATH
+ * environment, and $(gitexecdir) in Makefile while built,
+ * in this order. For scripted commands, we prepend
+ * the value of the exec_path variable to the PATH.
*/
if (exec_path)
prepend_to_path(exec_path, strlen(exec_path));
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>