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Re: msysgit: does git gui work?

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Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 10, 2007, 11:40 UTC
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On 8/10/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
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> On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
>
> > I recognized that '.' is included in the PATH in /etc/profile.
> > I don't think this is a good idea. At least it bit me once when
> > I expected to run /bin/git but instead /git/./git was chosen.
> > Shouldn't we remove '.' from the PATH?
>
> In my experience, Windows users (not Mac users forced to use Windows)
> _expect_ "." to be in the PATH.

...because they _cannot_ know otherwise. In Windows, you cannot remove "." from PATH, it is implicitly in it. It is actually worse than that: the system directories are in PATH too. Unconditionally. Yes, the same system directories all them programs put their .exes into.

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  1. Steffen ProhaskaAug 9, 2007
  2. Steffen ProhaskaAug 9, 2007
  3. Shawn O. PearceAug 10, 2007
  4. Steffen ProhaskaAug 10, 2007
  5. Steffen ProhaskaAug 10, 2007
  6. Marius Storm-OlsenAug 10, 2007
  7. Steffen ProhaskaAug 10, 2007
  8. Johannes SchindelinAug 10, 2007
  9. Steffen ProhaskaAug 10, 2007
  10. Johannes SchindelinAug 10, 2007
  11. Steffen ProhaskaAug 10, 2007
  12. Johannes SchindelinAug 10, 2007
  13. Steffen ProhaskaAug 10, 2007
  14. Alex RiesenAug 10, 2007
  15. Dmitry KakurinAug 11, 2007
  16. Alex RiesenAug 11, 2007

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