From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:21:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Glean libexec path from argv[0] for git-upload-pack and git-receive-pack.
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0807302020300.3486@wbgn129.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <48909396.3080500@lastminute.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Steve Haslam wrote:

> I think that once git-upload-pack.c et al get the argv[0] path over to 
> setup_path() then there's nothing more to do; setup_path() already uses 
> argv0_path in its list of paths to try. I'm confused to the reference to 
> PATH, though: we're avoiding the PATH environment variable completely.

There is an issue in setting up the argv0_path when Git is called as "git" 
and resolved via the PATH: argv[0] then is literally "git".

And we need argv0_path for other things than just calling programs: 
relative etc/gitconfig and libexecdir.

Ciao,
Dscho