From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Uwe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= Subject: [PATCH] untrue statement about git wrapper Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:57:50 +0100 Organization: Universitaet Freiburg, Institut f. Informatik Message-ID: <20070125055750.GA20545@cepheus> References: <20070125042721.GA6168@cepheus> <20070125045730.GA20345@spearce.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Git Mailing List To: "Shawn O. Pearce" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jan 25 06:58:05 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H9xcZ-0006iQ-Mq for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:58:04 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965364AbXAYF5z convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:57:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965366AbXAYF5y (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:57:54 -0500 Received: from atlas.informatik.uni-freiburg.de ([132.230.150.3]:43336 "EHLO atlas.informatik.uni-freiburg.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965364AbXAYF5y (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:57:54 -0500 Received: from login.informatik.uni-freiburg.de ([132.230.151.6]) by atlas.informatik.uni-freiburg.de with esmtps (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1H9xcP-0002Aj-4P; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:57:53 +0100 Received: from login.informatik.uni-freiburg.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by login.informatik.uni-freiburg.de (8.13.7+Sun/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l0P5voF7002519; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:57:50 +0100 (MET) Received: (from zeisberg@localhost) by login.informatik.uni-freiburg.de (8.13.7+Sun/8.12.11/Submit) id l0P5voP6002518; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:57:50 +0100 (MET) Mail-Followup-To: Uwe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kleine-K=F6nig?= , "Shawn O. Pearce" , Git Mailing List Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070125045730.GA20345@spearce.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi Shawn Shawn O. Pearce wrote: > Uwe Kleine-K?nig wrote: > > I wonder if there is a simpler way to test changes to git than > > installing it. My problem is that even if I run=20 >=20 > Look at the INSTALL file: >=20 > GIT_EXEC_PATH=3D`pwd` > PATH=3D`pwd`:$PATH > GITPERLLIB=3D`pwd`/perl/blib/lib > export GIT_EXEC_PATH PATH GITPERLLIB >=20 Thanks, that's what I searched for. While reading INSTALL, I noticed the following -- >8 -- Delete the now untrue statement that the git wrapper isn't used by the = core Some time ago most (if not all) calls use the wrapper to allow moving s= ome commands from PATH to execdir. Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-K=F6nig --- INSTALL | 9 +++------ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 361c65b..66f64a6 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -27,16 +27,13 @@ Issues of note: - git normally installs a helper script wrapper called "git", which conflicts with a similarly named "GNU interactive tools" program. =20 - Tough. Either don't use the wrapper script, or delete the old GNU - interactive tools. None of the core git stuff needs the wrapper, - it's just a convenient shorthand and while it is documented in some - places, you can always replace "git commit" with "git-commit" - instead.=20 + Tough. =20 =20 But let's face it, most of us don't have GNU interactive tools, and even if we had it, we wouldn't know what it does. I don't think it has been actively developed since 1997, and people have moved over = to - graphical file managers. + graphical file managers. So I suggest to remove it from your syste= m + if you have it. =20 - You can use git after building but without installing if you wanted to. Various git commands need to find other git --=20 1.5.0.rc2.gd1af2d --=20 Uwe Kleine-K=F6nig $ dc -e "5735816763073014741799356604682P"