Re: [PATCH] stop putting argv[0] dirname at front of PATH

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 12:23:17PM -0700, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > And > > not just for finding binaries; we want to find $(sharedir), > > etc, the same way. The RUNTIME_PREFIX build knob does this > > the right way > > Makes sense. For

Re: [PATCH] stop putting argv[0] dirname at front of PATH

Hi, Jeff King wrote: > This was added long > ago by by 231af83 (Teach the "git" command to handle some > commands internally, 2006-02-26), with the intent that > things would just work if you did something like: > > cd /opt > tar xzf premade-git-package

Re: [PATCH] stop putting argv[0] dirname at front of PATH

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 02:23:27PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Jeff King wrote: > > Subject: stop putting argv[0] dirname at front of PATH > > > > When the "git" wrapper is invoked, we prepend the baked-in > > exec-path to our PATH, so that any sub-processes we

Re: [PATCH] stop putting argv[0] dirname at front of PATH

On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Jeff King wrote: > Subject: stop putting argv[0] dirname at front of PATH > > When the "git" wrapper is invoked, we prepend the baked-in > exec-path to our PATH, so that any sub-processes we exec > will all find the git-foo commands that match the wrapper > version