Subject: Re: [PATCH] Locate git helpers with type -P, for when git --exec-path is multivalued

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:46:57 +0100

Dominique Quatravaux <[email-masked]> writes:

> Under a setting of (eg) GIT_EXEC_PATH=/home/joe/bin:/usr/lib/git-core,
> constructs such as
>
>   . "$(git --exec-path)"/git-sh-setup
>
> do not work. The proper way is
>
>   . "$(PATH="$(git --exec-path)" type -p git-sh-setup)"

type doesn't take any options in POSIX, and -P is bash-only.

Andreas.

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