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Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] system_path(): simplify using strip_path_suffix(), and add suffix "git"

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Feb 19, 2009, 20:48 UTC
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<alpine.DEB.1.00.0902192147180.6223@intel-tinevez-2-302>
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<499DC375.60105@kdbg.org>
Hi,
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Johannes Sixt wrote:
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> Johannes Schindelin schrieb:
> > The real change is to add the suffix "git", so that a runtime prefix will
> > be computed correctly even when the executable was called in /git/ as is
> > the case in msysGit (Windows insists to search the current directory
> > before the PATH when looking for an executable).
> 
> msysgit is important enough to be supported by upstream git, in particular
> since it is *the* user of RUNTIME_PREFIX, so that this special-casing is
> warranted. Therefore:
> 
> Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>
Thanks.

Note, however, that IMHO RUNTIME_PREFIX would be good for non-Windows, too, as it would make Git relocatable.

Ciao, Dscho

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Message 14 of 20 in “RUNTIME_PREFIX enhancements”
  1. 0/2 RUNTIME_PREFIX enhancementsJohannes Schindelin, Feb 18, 2009
  2. 1/2 Introduce the function strip_path_suffix()Johannes Schindelin, Feb 18, 2009
  3. Johannes SixtFeb 18, 2009
  4. Johannes SchindelinFeb 18, 2009
  5. Johannes SixtFeb 18, 2009
  6. Johannes SchindelinFeb 18, 2009
  7. 0/2 RUNTIME_PREFIX enhancementsJohannes Schindelin, Feb 19, 2009
  8. 1/2 Introduce the function strip_path_suffix()Johannes Schindelin, Feb 19, 2009
  9. Johannes SchindelinFeb 19, 2009
  10. Johannes SixtFeb 19, 2009
  11. Johannes SchindelinFeb 19, 2009
  12. 2/2 system_path(): simplify using strip_path_suffix(), and add suffix "git"Johannes Schindelin, Feb 19, 2009
  13. Johannes SixtFeb 19, 2009
  14. Johannes SchindelinFeb 19, 2009
  15. Junio C HamanoFeb 20, 2009
  16. 2/2 system_path(): simplify using strip_path_suffix(), and add suffix "git"Johannes Schindelin, Feb 18, 2009
  17. Johannes SixtFeb 18, 2009
  18. Johannes SchindelinFeb 18, 2009
  19. Johannes SixtFeb 18, 2009
  20. Johannes SchindelinFeb 18, 2009

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