From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:19:50 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] Move all dashed form git commands to libexecdir Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Nov 30, 2007 6:28 PM, Eyvind Bernhardsen wrote: > On 29. nov. 2007, at 23.36, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > [...] > > > If people are really serious about reducing the number of commands in > > the path, I would expect fixes and bugreports saying "I am setting > > gitexecdir different from bindir in _my_ installation when I build > > git, > > and here are the things that does not work if I do so". Within the > > span > > of more than 20 months (77cb17e9 introduced gitexecdir in Jan 2006), I > > do not think there was a single such report or patch, other than the > > message from Nguyen that started this thread. > > I'm setting gitexecdir different from bindir in my installation, and > here are the things that don't work: > > - When pushing to my system over ssh, git-receive-pack and git-upload- > pack are expected to be in $PATH. I resolved the problem by putting > symlinks in /usr/local/bin. > > I haven't seen any other problems, but then again, I only use git > plumbing commands and my own scripts. You remind me my experience of making every external C-based command builtin. There is another case: git-merge. It calls something like git-merge-$strategy. -- Duy