From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Linus Torvalds Subject: Re: Git 1.3.2 on Solaris Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 20:49:54 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <4973.1147836384@lotus.CS.Berkeley.EDU> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Stefan Pfetzing , Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed May 17 05:50:36 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FgD3N-0002wD-9n for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 17 May 2006 05:50:29 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751188AbWEQDuE (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 23:50:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751213AbWEQDuE (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 23:50:04 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:32433 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751188AbWEQDuC (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 May 2006 23:50:02 -0400 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k4H3nttH000725 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Tue, 16 May 2006 20:49:56 -0700 Received: from localhost (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id k4H3nsBc001028; Tue, 16 May 2006 20:49:54 -0700 To: Jason Riedy In-Reply-To: <4973.1147836384@lotus.CS.Berkeley.EDU> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0 required=5 tests= X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.74__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.134 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, 16 May 2006, Jason Riedy wrote: > > But for recommending and using git on these systems _now_... Yes. For that, I would literally suggest having people install the GNU tools (and/or a recent enough perl) somewhere early in the path. If you use the git wrapper, for example, you can already depend on the fact that it will prepend the git installation directory to the path, so while the GNU tools might not _normally_ be on the path, if you put them in the same directory as your git install, you'll automatically get them as long as you use the "git cmd" format (rather than the "git-cmd" format). Linus