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Subject: Re: git vs git
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>>>>> "Erik" == Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com> writes:

Erik>   #! /bin/sh
Erik>   # sct: call git
Erik>   gitpath=/path/to/git
Erik>   export PATH=$gitpath:$PATH
Erik>   exec $gitpath/git $*

You must not get a lot of spaces in your pathnames.  I think you want
those last two lines to be:

        export PATH="$gitpath:$PATH"
        exec "$gitpath/git" "$@"

Typical lazy shell programmer. :) :)

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