From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 09 May 2009 16:55:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] To make GIT-VERSION-FILE, search for git more widely
Message-ID: <7vskje6wsy.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <op.utlylkb61e62zd@balu>

"Matthias Andree" <matthias.andree@gmx.de> writes:

>> Fine then.  Or you could just append "." to the $PATH ;-)
>
> "." in the super user's PATH? Cool stuff, and so innovative.

I didn't mean to suggest PATH=$PATH:. *in the user's environment* ;-).
You do that inside GIT-VERSION-FILE, which is essentially the same thing
as running ./git$X from there.

What's innovative is whoever is running build as root.