From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:48:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] system_path(): simplify using strip_path_suffix(), and add suffix "git"
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0902192147180.6223@intel-tinevez-2-302>
In-Reply-To: <499DC375.60105@kdbg.org>

Hi,

On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Johannes Sixt wrote:

> 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