From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:34:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] help git-upload-pack find git
Message-ID: <7vzlm9b3v4.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <1221495891-12600-1-git-send-email-git@drmicha.warpmail.net>

Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:

> The corresponding bug was reported by Paul Johnston who wondered why
> "git clone" failed when specifying --upload-pack for an out-of-$PATH
> installation of git.  I'm not sure whether we should encourage this, but
> the --upload-pack option clearly gives the impression that
> git-upload-pack is all that is needed.

Another possibility would be to teach exec_cmd.c:setup_path() to add the
directory specified by $(bindir) to PATH after we add GIT_EXEC_PATH to
it.  That should cover the case David Miller reported, shouldn't it?