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To: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
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Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:

> Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>> I think this might be a bit ambiguous. When I see "GIT_LIB", to me
>> it implies traditional libraries (ie a "libgit.a" kind of thing),
>> not the kind of "git executable plugin" directory.
>> So I'd suggest renaming "--lib" and "GIT_LIB" to be more of a
>> "--libexec" kind of flavor, if only to avoid that confusion.
>
> Someone said libexec was moving out (of Linux, at least), so I thought 
> I'd better avoid that. Perhaps GIT_LIBDIR?

More like "the rest of git executables".  GIT_EXEC_PATH, with
"git --exec-path" command, perhaps?