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Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se> writes:

> Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>> If you want to do a "configure" script (and I'm not sure it's worth
>> it),
>
> Perhaps not. I was under the impression that Junio was for it to 
> simplify the possible move of binaries to GIT_EXEC_PATH.

I do not see how that is related to it.

Offtopic, but if you really want to do ${var##} and friends
portably, expr(1) is the tool traditionalists prefer; not echo
piped to sed, please.