Re: [PATCH] t7005-editor.sh: Don't invoke real vi when it is in GIT_EXEC_PATH

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Nov 11, 2007, 17:44 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0711111742010.4362@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <1194802691-27610-1-git-send-email-B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>

Hi,

On Sun, 11 Nov 2007, Björn Steinbrink wrote:

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> The git wrapper executable always prepends the GIT_EXEC_PATH build
> variable to the current PATH, so prepending "." to the PATH is not
> enough to give precedence to the fake vi executable.
> 
> The --exec-path option allows to prepend a directory to PATH even before
> GIT_EXEC_PATH (which is added anyway), so we can use that instead.

Hmm. This will probably stop working when you do not have git installed, because you now tell git to search for git programs in ".", where they are not. Probably git-commit executes your installed write-tree, commit-tree and friends, instead of the compiled ones.

Ciao, Dscho