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Git-shell do not work when git is not installed in PATH

Subject: Git-shell do not work when git is not installed in PATH

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Gustaf Gunnarsson· Mar 18, 2009, 13:16 UTC · lore

Hi, git-shell is unable to spawn git-receive-pack, git-upload-pack and git-cvsserver when git is not installed in PATH.

As far as I understund it is impossible to get git_extract_argv0_path() to work when using git-shell and the only path the actually works to use is GIT_EXEC_PATH. Hence, could the defaults be changed so that git is also installed in GIT_EXEC_PATH or is there some better solution?

//Gustaf

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