From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Paul Smith <paul@mad-scientist.net>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git 2.9.2: is RUNTIME_PREFIX supposed to work?
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 17:34:20 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1609271732440.129229@virtualbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1474982294.3190.32.camel@mad-scientist.net>
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Hi Paul,
On Tue, 27 Sep 2016, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-09-26 at 14:57 -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 2:32 PM, Paul Smith <paul@mad-scientist.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all. I'm trying to create a relocatable installation of Git 2.9.2,
> > > so I can copy it anywhere and it continues to run without any problem.
> > > This is on GNU/Linux systems, FWIW.
> >
> > I had an impression that the setting was only to support MS Windows.
>
> Hm. You may be right. If so that's too bad, because a relocatable Git
> is very handy even on UNIX systems.
I see no reason why we have to keep the RUNTIME_PREFIX functional for
Windows only. Paul, how about giving it a try to fix things? I can make
sure that your changes do not break anything on Windows.
Ciao,
Johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-27 15:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-26 21:32 git 2.9.2: is RUNTIME_PREFIX supposed to work? Paul Smith
2016-09-26 21:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-27 13:18 ` Paul Smith
2016-09-27 15:34 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2016-09-27 16:15 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-09-27 16:37 ` Junio C Hamano
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