From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:37:12 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] "git shell" won't work, need "git-shell"
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0808251235430.24820@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20080824222534.GC14930@eagain.net>

Hi,

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Tommi Virtanen wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 02:20:20PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > I do not have particular preference either way.  What people wanted was to
> > have smaller number of git-foo on $PATH, and especially as "git-shell" is
> > not something people would be typing from their command line, so I dunno.
> 
> That's true, but I kinda think libexec is something only used
> *internally*, and you can't claim /etc/passwd to be internal to git..
> 
> At the minimum, git-shell(1) should explain that one needs to use the
> libexec path.

Or maybe the real issue can be fixed?  Namely that your configuration does 
not work?  That would involve you actually finding out what's happening, 
though.

Ciao,
Dscho