# Re: [PATCH] use only the PATH for exec'ing git commands

1 messages from 2007-10-22 to 2007-10-22. Participants: Scott R Parish.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/10434

## Scott R Parish, 2007-10-22 19:59

Subject: Re: [PATCH] use only the PATH for exec'ing git commands
Message-ID: <1193083146.v2.fusewebmail-240137@f>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/1193083146.v2.fusewebmail-240137%40f

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> Alex Reisen, Mon, Oct 22, 2007 12:01:
> > +                strbuf_addch(out, ':');
>
> Shouldn't it break MingW32 native port?
>

<snip>

> > +        if (old_path)
> > +                strbuf_addstr(&amp;new_path, old_path);
> > +        else
> > +                strbuf_addstr(&amp;new_path,
"/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin");
>
> the default PATH is platform-dependent. Git is multi-platform.
> You should consider putting the path list somewhere in Makefile,
> config.mak or configure.
>

The original code was already doing both of these things (see git.c's
prepend_to_path())

sRp

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