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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/9 v2] Allow the built-in exec path to be relative to
 the command invocation path
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 10:38:50 +0200
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Johannes Sixt schrieb:
> Oh, I see: You tested it on Linux, right? This patch series does not work
> correctly on Linux (Unix? bash?), as Dscho has pointed out, since argv[0]

does not work correctly on Linux... *iff gitexecdir is relative*

> does not have a directory part if "git" is in $PATH. In this case, system_path()
> just returns its argument, which is the relative path. :-/

-- Hannes