Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] run-command (Windows): Run dashless "git <cmd>" (solves part of problem with system_path)

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> This feels wrong to me.  fast-import probably won't be adversly
> impacted by not being able to read /etc/gitconfig, unless the user
> has set something like core.deltaBaseCacheLimit and is doing an
> incremental import.  But other non-builtins may be impacted.
>
> It feels like we're fixing this in the wrong place.  If the issue
> is we don't find our installation directory correctly, we should
> find our installation directory correctly, not work around it by
> calling builtins through the git wrapper.
>
> Though I can see where it may be a good idea to at some point
> in the future (git 1.7?) stop creating the redundant builtin
> links under libexec/git-core.

I agree; that is why I already applied Steffen's original patch with quite
a different justification from the updated one:

commit b048b9a803f48d88595877271b53bf9ec400e4ba
Author: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date:   Mon Jul 28 07:50:28 2008 +0200

    run-command (Windows): Run dashless "git <cmd>"
    
    We prefer running the dashless form, and POSIX side already does so; we
    should use it in MinGW's start_command(), too.
    
    Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
    Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <johannes.sixt@telecom.at>
    Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>