From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:40:28 GMT
Subject: Re: msysgit: does git gui work?
Message-ID: <81b0412b0708100440l116f934ft22d3ac3c71e2e7cf@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708101113380.21857@racer.site>

On 8/10/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> 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.