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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: --exec-path not always honored
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:34:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49BF7CAF.6060505@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0903171117480.6393@intel-tinevez-2-302>

Johannes Schindelin schrieb:
> On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Johannes Sixt wrote:
> 
>> I noticed this failure if I run git from the build directory:
>>
>> $ ./git --exec-path=. gc
> 
> I am not sure if "." is what you think it is; I imagine it would be 
> $GIT_DIR by the time the PATH variable is adjusted.

This would be *very* bogus, wouldn't it?

> Could you try again with
> 
> 	$ ./git --exec-path="$(pwd)" gc
> 
> ?

It fails in the same way:

$ ./git --exec-path=$(pwd) gc
usage: git pack-objects blah blah...
error: failed to run repack

-- Hannes

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-17 10:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-17  9:11 --exec-path not always honored Johannes Sixt
2009-03-17 10:19 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-03-17 10:34   ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2009-03-18  5:41 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-03-18  7:42   ` Johannes Sixt

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