From: Paul Smith <paul@mad-scientist.net>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git 2.9.2: is RUNTIME_PREFIX supposed to work?
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 09:18:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1474982294.3190.32.camel@mad-scientist.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPc5daU_nnHRjtC02bxqRaoU+0Rgi7pS6e912Fqk-Xy=qdKWFA@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 2016-09-26 at 14:57 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Paul Smith <paul@mad-scientist.net> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all. I'm trying to create a relocatable installation of Git 2.9.2,
> > so I can copy it anywhere and it continues to run without any problem.
> > This is on GNU/Linux systems, FWIW.
>
> I had an impression that the setting was only to support MS Windows.
Hm. You may be right. If so that's too bad, because a relocatable Git
is very handy even on UNIX systems. Is there a reason for invoking the
subcommands by providing the plain command ("fetch", "merge-base") as
argv[0], rather than giving the fully-qualified path to a Git command?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-27 13:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-26 21:32 git 2.9.2: is RUNTIME_PREFIX supposed to work? Paul Smith
2016-09-26 21:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-27 13:18 ` Paul Smith [this message]
2016-09-27 15:34 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-09-27 16:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-27 16:37 ` Junio C Hamano
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