Re: [bug] git cannot find "git pull"?

[Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>]

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Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> It is notable that Fedora 11 is the first Fedora release that
>> follows the git 1.6.x defaults and installs most git binaries
>> outside of PATH.  I don't think that would cause this, and I
>> haven't had any troubles running these packages for many months,
>> but that's never stopped really obvious bugs in the past...
>
> I do not follow distro packaged versions of git, but it may help to
> double check your spec changes against the output of
>
>     $ git log -p v1.5.6..v1.6.2.2 -- git.spec.in
>
> to see which paths need to be updated.

AFAIK, we're installing things in the correct locations.  git-pull is
located with the rest of the git commands in /usr/libexec/git-core
(which is what 'git --exec-path' shows).

The Fedora 10 packages (unfortunately, IMO) set gitexecdir=%{_bindir},
but that was rectified as soon as the Fedora 11 cycle started and we
tried to track each upstream git release closely until things were
frozen to make the release.  I know there are a good number of fedora
developers and packagers who use git, so I would really expect that
we'd have seen pitchfork wielding mobs if we broke the packaging
badly. ;)

> Of course, you might not be using a specfile remotely similar to
> what we have in-tree (I believe it was originally done by Chris
> Wright who is listed as one of the persons who have something to do
> with Fedora packaged versions of git in your maintainers list), so
> this may not be a helpful tip at all, in which case I apologize...

Your help and insight is always welcome Junio. :)

Chris has been busy with other things for a while.  I started helping
with git package maintenance only in the last 6 months or so.  Over
time, the spec file we have has drifted a bit from what is in git.git,
though not terribly so.  I need to spend some time and look at what,
if any, changes in the Fedora spec file would be good candidates for
submitting to git.git.  I have been primarily concerned with making
things work cleanly on Fedora and RHEL/CentOS though, so some of the
changes may not be as generic as they ought to be if they are to be
included in git.git.

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