Re: [PATCH] Move all dashed form git commands to libexecdir

> On Nov 30, 2007 6:28 PM, Eyvind Bernhardsen
> <eyvind-git-list@orakel.ntnu.no> wrote:
> > On 29. nov. 2007, at 23.36, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > If people are really serious about reducing the number of commands in
> > > the path, I would expect fixes and bugreports saying "I am setting
> > > gitexecdir different from bindir in _my_ installation when I build
> > > git,
> > > and here are the things that does not work if I do so".  Within the
> > > span
> > > of more than 20 months (77cb17e9 introduced gitexecdir in Jan 2006), I
> > > do not think there was a single such report or patch, other than the
> > > message from Nguyen that started this thread.
> >
> > I'm setting gitexecdir different from bindir in my installation, and
> > here are the things that don't work:
> >
> > - When pushing to my system over ssh, git-receive-pack and git-upload-
> > pack are expected to be in $PATH.  I resolved the problem by putting
> > symlinks in /usr/local/bin.
> >
> > I haven't seen any other problems, but then again, I only use git
> > plumbing commands and my own scripts.
> 
> You remind me my experience of making every external C-based command
> builtin. There is another case: git-merge. It calls  something like
> git-merge-$strategy.