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Bug? Bad permissions in $PATH breaks Git aliases

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JPJames Pickens <jepicken@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 26, 2012, 23:48 UTC
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Hi,

I'm not sure if this should be considered a bug or not, but I've noticed that when my $PATH contains an inaccessible directory, Git fails to execute aliases. For example:

git config alias.l log git l # works fine PATH=boguspath:$PATH mkdir boguspath chmod 000 boguspath git l # fatal: cannot exec 'git-l': Permission denied

I lean towards calling it a bug, since my shell doesn't seem to care if there are inaccessible directories in my $PATH. It just ignores them, and I think Git ought to do the same.

James
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