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"Yakov Lerner" <iler.ml@gmail.com> writes:

> BTW, is it possible to have git use argv[0] to automatically determine
> the executable_dir without compiled-in paths ?

It is possible and I think we did that some time ago.

We fixed it since then, so that you can migrate away from
assuming bindir==gitexecdir.