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From: Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all•nl>
To: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox•net>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Install git-sh-setup.sh into $(prefix)/share/git-core. Call with explicit path.
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 00:40:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <457B4981.2030408@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v1wn8ah2k.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano escreveu:
> Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all•nl> writes:
> 
>> And how about coding the path of git-sh-setup (in <prefix>/bin/git-sh-setup) 
>> in the shell scripts? This will ensure that the sh-setup is the one
>> from the right package, but still retain backward compatibility for 
>> scripts.
> 
> Hardcoding $(bin)/git-sh-setup is a non-starter; it breaks
> GIT_EXEC_PATH convention to allow users to override it.

> In other words, I do not know what real problem you are trying
> to solve.

The real problem is that git is nonstandard to wrap around:
scripts like git-sh-setup need special attention, because they don't work 
with

  exec /some/where/else/git-sh-setup "$@"

I admit is a small problem, but IMO that's not an argument not to solve it.

-- 

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-09 23:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-08 17:13 [PATCH] Install git-sh-setup.sh into $(prefix)/share/git-core. Call with explicit path Han-Wen Nienhuys
2006-12-08 19:11 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2006-12-08 20:50   ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2006-12-08 19:37 ` Eric Wong
2006-12-08 20:45   ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-09 13:08     ` Han-Wen Nienhuys
2006-12-09 21:35       ` Junio C Hamano
2006-12-09 23:40         ` Han-Wen Nienhuys [this message]
2006-12-10  0:50           ` Junio C Hamano

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