From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 2008 21:05:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] Documentation: Don't assume git-sh-setup and git-parse-remote are in the PATH
Message-ID: <7vvdztmfrk.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080628205817.GB3172@steel.home>

Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

> Jonathan Nieder, Fri, Jun 27, 2008 22:10:01 +0200:
>>  --------
>> +[verse]
>> +'PATH=$(git --exec-path):$PATH'
>>  '. git-parse-remote'
>
> You missed quoting. exec-path can contain whitespace.

Do you understand shell quoting rules?

	$ foo='c d'
	$ foo=$(echo a b):$foo
        $ echo "$foo"
        a b:c d
        $ exit

> What do you need exec-path in PATH for?

When git-parse-remote is not installed in $(bindir) anymore, the shell
script library won't be found on user's $PATH in general.