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From: Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@watson.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Remember and use GIT_EXEC_PATH on exec()'s
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:31:05 -0500
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On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 20:55 +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> > Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@watson.ibm.com> writes:
> > 
> > > git programs exec other git programs, but they also exec non-git
> > > programs.  I think it is not appropriate to change PATH (via
> > > prepend_to_path) because this may result in unexpected behavior when
> > > exec'ing non-git programs:
> > 
> > This is a valid concern.
> 
> Why? If what is prepended to PATH only contains git programs?
> 


If git is installed with prefix=/usr, then that won't be the case.


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Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@watson.ibm.com>