Jeff King writes:
> IOW, you can do things like
>
> alias git=/opt/my-git/git
>
> and all the "git" commands will automatically work fine, even if you
> didn't know at compile time where you would install them, and you didn't
> set GIT_EXEC_DIR at run-time. It will still first loo
Jeff King peff.net> writes:
>
> If we can get away with just dropping this element from the PATH, I'd
> much rather do that than try to implement a complicated path-precedence
> scheme.
>
> -Peff
>
I agree, GIT_EXEC_DIR should be enough and this surprising behavior would be
avoided.
--
To uns
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 02:17:32AM -0400, Jeff King wrote:
> So it uses a special git-specific version of exec, and doesn't touch the
> PATH. Later, we did 231af83 (Teach the "git" command to handle some
> commands internally, 2006-02-26), which says at the end:
>
>There's one other change: t
On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 11:00:20AM -0400, Matthew Rothenberg wrote:
> So, I guess what I'm looking for is:
> - A way to prevent the **path to the running "git" itself** portion
> of setup_path from firing, (OR)
Yeah, this behavior leaves me somewhat confused. It is obviously
dangerous (since we
Hmm, this all makes sense as to why it's happening, thank you. In my
case the ` /usr/local/Cellar/git/2.3.5/libexec/git-core` (git
--exec-path) does give all the proper binaries and sub-binaries. It
shows up twice because the GIT_EXEC_PATH environment variable is used
too (which is the same in my
Matthew Rothenberg writes:
> - what is the expected PATH modification behavior for subprocesses of
> git-hooks? Is this documented anywhere?
> - what would be causing /usr/local/bin to be prepended here, and can
> it be adjusted via preference?
This is not limited to hooks and very much delibe
Using git 2.3.5 (on darwin, installed via homebrew), when executing a
script via the commit-msg githook, the following gets *prepended* to
the $PATH for the subprocess:
/usr/local/Cellar/git/2.3.5/libexec/git-core:/usr/local/Cellar/git/2.3.5/libexec/git-core:/usr/local/bin:{rest
of path...}
I
7 matches
Mail list logo
