Re: [PATCH 0/7] prefix discovery at runtime (on Windows)

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> > Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> writes:
> >
> >> Apologies for proposing such large changes that late in the release 
> >> cycle. Maybe we want to postpone the series until 1.6.0.1 or even 
> >> 1.6.1.
> >
> > Well, from the cursory look, it does not seem to be 1.6.0.1 material, 
> > even though it is possible to fork a topic at 1.6.0 and use the 
> > changes in 'next', then 'master', and eventually to 'maint' to produce 
> > 1.6.0.X, if all of this hapapens before 1.6.1.
> >
> > I wouldn't mind at all if the binary distribution on Windows is based 
> > on "git.git plus port specific patchset that will eventually be sent 
> > upstream" like it used to be.  In fact it might even be preferrable, 
> > as I won't be testing ports to that platform myself anyway.
> 
> If the depth difference between /usr/libexec/git-cat-file and /bin/git 
> is the major source of this headache, I do not think it is unreasonable 
> for the mingw git port to use "gitexecdir=$(bindir)" layout by default.  
> After all, Windows users do not really care where bulk of things are, as 
> long as they see one single clickable icon on the desktop, don't they?