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Multiple paths in GIT_EXEC_PATH

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NYNikolay Yakimov <root@livid.pp.ru>
Date
Oct 17, 2017, 15:21 UTC
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Hello. After updating to a recent git release (2.14, I believe, but possibly earlier), setting GIT_EXEC_PATH to multiple directories stopped working. It did work before, and I believe the culprit is 'git-sh-setup', which uses 'git --exec-path' output directly, while most other git components observe PATH syntax, i.e. multiple paths with colon separator. Is this intended, or is it an oversight?

For why I need that is another matter. Long story short, I need git to look for '.gitignore' in a particular non-standard location, since I have multiple git repositories in the same workdir (that workdir being $HOME and git repositories being stores for my different configs)

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