From: Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 04:19:49 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Keep some git-* programs in $(bindir)
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.1.00.0806250015580.19665@iabervon.org>
In-Reply-To: <7v1w2m8ahi.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Tue, 24 Jun 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Otherwise remote executions directly over ssh won't find them as they used
> to.  --upload-pack and --receive-pack options _could_ be used on the
> client side, but things should keep working out-of-box for older clients.
> 
> Later versions of clients (fetch-pack and send-pack) probably could start
> asking for these programs with dashless form, but that is a different
> topic.

Should they use "git upload-pack" or should they look for their helper 
programs in a libexec dir? I don't think that either of these programs is 
useful to run independantly, but I don't know if finding a program that 
doesn't go in $PATH on a remote machine is going to be any fun.

	-Daniel
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