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From: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
To: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Strangely hosed git install
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 12:11:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46a038f90905280311p406a528atb8d21a30fe53b0e3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A1E5DBC.2090908@drmicha.warpmail.net>

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Michael J Gruber
<git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
> This is insane. Don't they even distinguish between an interactive shell
> and a non-interactive one?

Yes they do. I mentioned it but I didn't think it was the reason
behind the problem.

> Well, I would say go "find / git-diff-index", or simply nuke anything
> git you find and do a clean install... "find"ing the left over bits
> would help making sure that git's own search path is OK.

well, that's not what happens when people bisect back and forth. It
used to be reasonably safe, it got unsafe when we moved lots of things
to libexec (and therefore the make install target got a nice warning
message about it). Now there might something acting up again.

Alas, I didn't keep a backup of my libexec :-/




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      reply	other threads:[~2009-05-28 10:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-28  7:08 Strangely hosed git install Martin Langhoff
2009-05-28  7:18 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-05-28  7:22   ` Martin Langhoff
2009-05-28  8:29     ` Michael J Gruber
2009-05-28  9:34       ` Martin Langhoff
2009-05-28  9:39         ` Martin Langhoff
2009-05-28  9:47         ` Michael J Gruber
2009-05-28 10:11           ` Martin Langhoff [this message]

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