On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 08:58:35AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >On 1/28/2014 4:02 PM, Andrey Repin wrote: >>> I've found that I need to do the following: >> >>> PATH=/usr/bin git .... >> >>> or I get odd failures. So I've actually set that up as an alias: >> >>> alias git='PATH=/usr/bin git' >> >> This sounds like you have issues with the default $PATH order. > >Nope, /usr/bin is in the front of my regular $PATH. Check the archives >-- it has something to do with the size of the environment block being >too big when spawning the new process. IIRC. So making the $PATH short >makes the env block smaller...
Yes, environment size is a persistent, irritating problem. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
