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From: Michael Weiser <M.Weiser@science-computing.de>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Extend runtime prefix computation
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2013 09:19:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130306081942.GA11151@science-computing.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vd2vdvn7l.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Hello Junio,

On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 08:13:50AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> >> Support determining the binaries' installation path at runtime even if
> >> called without any path components (i.e. via search path).

> The default for any change is not to include it.  Is there any
> reason why we want this change?

It makes a binary git installation fully relocatable. Seeing how git
already has basic support for it I thought other people might be
interested in this.

Thanks,
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-06  8:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-27 16:30 [PATCH] Extend runtime prefix computation Michael Weiser
2012-11-30 10:20 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2012-11-30 10:45   ` Michael Weiser
2013-03-05 11:58 ` Michael Weiser
2013-03-05 16:13   ` Junio C Hamano
2013-03-06  8:19     ` Michael Weiser [this message]
2013-04-16 14:56       ` Michael Weiser
2013-04-16 18:23         ` Junio C Hamano
2013-04-16 15:18       ` Erik Faye-Lund
2013-04-17  6:06         ` Michael Weiser
2013-10-04 13:32           ` Michael Weiser
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-04-15 14:30 Michael Weiser
2016-04-15 16:43 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-04-18  7:20   ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-04-20 17:52   ` Michael Weiser

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