From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Ericsson Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (topics) Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:27:44 +0200 Message-ID: <471F8EA0.9030902@op5.se> References: <20071022063222.GS14735@spearce.org> <7vzly84qwf.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20071024160852.GA759@srparish.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Scott Parish X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 24 20:28:03 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IkkxW-0004Uj-5U for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:28:02 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757841AbXJXS1t (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:27:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757851AbXJXS1t (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:27:49 -0400 Received: from mail.op5.se ([193.201.96.20]:40234 "EHLO mail.op5.se" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755268AbXJXS1r (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:27:47 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD2131730678; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:27:31 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.499 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.499 tagged_above=-10 required=6.6 tests=[BAYES_00=-2.599, RDNS_NONE=0.1] Received: from mail.op5.se ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.op5.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id fwgXlYM3WUBp; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:27:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from nox.op5.se (unknown [172.27.77.30]) by mail.op5.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC288173066B; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 20:27:29 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070727) In-Reply-To: <20071024160852.GA759@srparish.net> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Scott Parish wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 05:51:28AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> * js/PATH (Sun Oct 21 22:59:01 2007 +0100) 1 commit >> - execv_git_cmd(): also try PATH if everything else fails. >> >> I do not quite get why this is needed; need to go back to the >> discussion myself. On the other hand, I found the alternative >> approach suggested on the list very interesting (i.e. instead of >> "also try", just letting exec*p use PATH, relying on the fact >> that we do prepend-to-path anyway). What happened to it? Was >> there a downside? > > The main downside that was raised was MingW compatibility, but > Schindelin and Sixt both said that it could wait until further > work is done porting to MingW. > > Should i resend my string of patches? I've seen people numbering > their patches, should i do that as well? > 'git format-patch -n' will do it for you. I take it you've found out about git-send-email already? -- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231