Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 0.99.9g

[Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>]

Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> My current thinking about this problem is that the handful
>> programs that need to run "on the other end" should stay in
>> /usr/bin, even after we move most things out of /usr/bin, if
>> only to avoid configuration hassles.  They are:
>> 	receive-pack, upload-pack
>>         ssh-fetch, ssh-pull, ssh-push, ssh-upload
>
> I liked your suggestion of deprecating the /usr/bin use a month or two 
> before it's effected better. We could then provide symlinks for the 
> necessary programs that point to their real locations in GIT_EXEC_PATH 
> and (someday) drop those links when they're no longer needed.

Yes, but the problem is when that "someday" comes.  Unlike a
single machine installation where we can tell "git" to look into
somewhere different at the same time we move the subcommands out
of /usr/bin, "the other end" can lag behind and sometimes not
under control of the end user.

I think it's simpler to manage and can be made configuration
free if we keep receive-pack and upload-pack in /usr/bin and
always call these programs in dash-form (i.e. not "git
upload-pack") from the other end.  .bash_profile is not read for
incoming ssh connections to execute a single command, but many
people set their PATH in there, without setting PATH in .bashrc.

I personally think that having to set PATH in .bashrc it is
actually a bug in what bash does, but that is OT.