Re: [PATCH] Deduce exec_path also from calls to git with a relative path

["Scott R Parish" <srp@srparish.net>]

Wow, that sure cleaned up nicely! :)

Thanks
sRp


----- Original Message -----
Subject: [PATCH] Deduce exec_path also from calls to git with a relative path
Date: Sat, October 20, 2007 0:21
From: "Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>

> There is already logic in the git wrapper to deduce the exec_path from
> argv[0], when the git wrapper was called with an absolute path.  Extend
> that logic to handle relative paths as well.
>
> For example, when you call "../../hello/world/git", it will not turn
> "../../hello/world" into an absolute path, and use that.
>
> Initial implementation by Scott R Parish.
>
> Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
> ---
>
>         On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Scott R Parish wrote:
>
>         >  Signed-off-by: Scott R Parish <srp@srparish.net>
>
>         That is a little short for a commit message ;-)
>
>         >  git.c |   35 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>         >  1 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
>         I had commented on this before.  Probably I did a very bad job
>         at explaining things, so hopefully this is better:
>
>  git.c |    5 +++--
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
> index d7c6bca..1dad764 100644
> --- a/git.c
> +++ b/git.c
> @@ -414,13 +414,14 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
>          /*
>           * Take the basename of argv[0] as the command
>           * name, and the dirname as the default exec_path
> -         * if it's an absolute path and we don't have
> -         * anything better.
> +         * if we don't have anything better.
>           */
>          if (slash) {
>                  *slash++ = 0;
>                  if (*cmd == '/')
>                          exec_path = cmd;
> +                else
> +                        exec_path = xstrdup(make_absolute_path(cmd));
>                  cmd = slash;
>          }
>
> --
> 1.5.3.4.1287.g8b31e
>
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