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[GIT GUI PATCH 1/2] git-gui: teach _which procedure to work with absolute paths

From
Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
Date
Mar 23, 2012, 17:30 UTC
Message-ID
<e7a733b5ad4e2009aec205235a95a610ee18947b.1332523097.git.hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
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_which is useful to check whether a certain command can be called. Previously when given an absolute path it would not recognize it as an existing program. Lets change that so it transparently handles such cases.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Voigt <heiko.voigt@mahr.de>
---
 git-gui/git-gui.sh |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/git-gui/git-gui.sh b/git-gui/git-gui.sh
index ba4e5c1..35cdee8 100755
--- a/git-gui/git-gui.sh
+++ b/git-gui/git-gui.sh
@@ -429,6 +429,10 @@ proc _git_cmd {name} {
 proc _which {what args} {
 	global env _search_exe _search_path
 
+	if {[file exists $what]} {
+		return [file normalize $what]
+	}
+
 	if {$_search_path eq {}} {
 		if {[is_Cygwin] && [regexp {^(/|\.:)} $env(PATH)]} {
 			set _search_path [split [exec cygpath \
-- 
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