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From: David Brown <git@davidb.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Let git-help prefer man-pages installed with this
	version of git
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 08:22:04 -0800
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On Fri, Dec 07, 2007 at 08:19:19AM -0800, David Brown wrote:

> Or, git gets installed out of path in its own tree, and then the 'git'
> executable itself is symlinked somewhere into the path.  I know this
> happens, because this is what IT ended up doing.

   This is what IT ended up doing, where I work.

I haven't run into the problem this patch fixes because the strange
out-of-path git is the only version of git available on the systems.

Dave