[PATCH] Deduce exec_path also from calls to git with a relative path

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 20, 2007, 07:21 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710200818410.25221@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20071020064617.GC2237@srparish.net>

There is already logic in the git wrapper to deduce the exec_path from argv[0], when the git wrapper was called with an absolute path. Extend that logic to handle relative paths as well.

For example, when you call "../../hello/world/git", it will not turn "../../hello/world" into an absolute path, and use that.

Initial implementation by Scott R Parish.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
---

	On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Scott R Parish wrote:

	>  Signed-off-by: Scott R Parish <srp@srparish.net>

	That is a little short for a commit message ;-)

	>  git.c |   35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
	>  1 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

	I had commented on this before.  Probably I did a very bad job 
	at explaining things, so hopefully this is better:

 git.c |    5 +++--
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
index d7c6bca..1dad764 100644
--- a/git.c
+++ b/git.c
@@ -414,13 +414,14 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
 	/*
 	 * Take the basename of argv[0] as the command
 	 * name, and the dirname as the default exec_path
-	 * if it's an absolute path and we don't have
-	 * anything better.
+	 * if we don't have anything better.
 	 */
 	if (slash) {
 		*slash++ = 0;
 		if (*cmd == '/')
 			exec_path = cmd;
+		else
+			exec_path = xstrdup(make_absolute_path(cmd));
 		cmd = slash;
 	}

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