From: James Pickens <jepicken@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 23:48:29 GMT
Subject: Bug? Bad permissions in $PATH breaks Git aliases
Message-ID: <CAJMEqRBmuBJuUmeoAU-_xf=s10ybD9pXhUJT+fn8aHNE2WJz6A@mail.gmail.com>

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