# [PATCH] gitweb: Make it work with $GIT containing spaces

1 messages from 2008-06-14 to 2008-06-14. Participants: Jakub Narebski.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/13958

## Jakub Narebski, 2008-06-14 18:37

Subject: [PATCH] gitweb: Make it work with $GIT containing spaces
Message-ID: <20080614183758.26667.62656.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20080614183758.26667.62656.stgit%40localhost.localdomain

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This fixes single point where $GIT (which can contain full path
to git binary) with embedded spaces gave errors.

Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
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 gitweb/gitweb.perl |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)


diff --git a/gitweb/gitweb.perl b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
index c7882f2..485e1bd 100755
--- a/gitweb/gitweb.perl
+++ b/gitweb/gitweb.perl
@@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ if (-e $GITWEB_CONFIG) {
 }
 
 # version of the core git binary
-our $git_version = qx($GIT --version) =~ m/git version (.*)$/ ? $1 : "unknown";
+our $git_version = qx("$GIT" --version) =~ m/git version (.*)$/ ? $1 : "unknown";
 
 $projects_list ||= $projectroot;
 

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