From: "Alex Riesen" <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
To: "Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: "Steffen Prohaska" <prohaska@zib.de>,
"Marius Storm-Olsen" <marius@trolltech.com>,
"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: msysgit: does git gui work?
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:40:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <81b0412b0708100440l116f934ft22d3ac3c71e2e7cf@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708101113380.21857@racer.site>
On 8/10/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Steffen Prohaska wrote:
>
> > I recognized that '.' is included in the PATH in /etc/profile.
> > I don't think this is a good idea. At least it bit me once when
> > I expected to run /bin/git but instead /git/./git was chosen.
> > Shouldn't we remove '.' from the PATH?
>
> In my experience, Windows users (not Mac users forced to use Windows)
> _expect_ "." to be in the PATH.
...because they _cannot_ know otherwise. In Windows, you cannot remove "."
from PATH, it is implicitly in it.
It is actually worse than that: the system directories are in PATH
too. Unconditionally.
Yes, the same system directories all them programs put their .exes into.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-10 11:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-09 7:24 msysgit: does git gui work? Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-09 21:23 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-10 5:31 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-08-10 7:03 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-10 7:38 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-10 7:47 ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2007-08-10 10:26 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-10 10:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-10 10:51 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-10 12:13 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-10 13:48 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-10 13:53 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-08-10 16:47 ` Steffen Prohaska
2007-08-10 11:40 ` Alex Riesen [this message]
2007-08-11 6:10 ` Dmitry Kakurin
2007-08-11 8:40 ` Alex Riesen
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2007-08-10 22:00 Brett Schwarz
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