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Re: Can GIT_EXEC_PATH behave more like PATH?

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Dec 7, 2005, 19:21 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> writes:
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> When users use "git frotz", the git command internally knows
> where the right version of subcommands are stored.  When reason
> you would want to override that, you would exactly know one
> directory with which you want to override it.  You do not want
> GIT_EXEC_PATH="/usr/lib/git-1.02:/usr/lib/git" in such a case,
> either.

OOPS. That did not parse so well. "... When you would want to override that for whatever reason, you would..."

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