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From: "Eric Merritt" <cyberlync@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] use only the PATH for exec'ing git commands
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2007 12:25:21 -0700
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> the default PATH is platform-dependent. Git is multi-platform.
> You should consider putting the path list somewhere in Makefile,
> config.mak or configure.

This static configuration that you describe is one of the things this
patch is designed to strip out. Compile time configuration breaks down
completly if you don't deploy to the path defined when the system was
compiled. Thats a problem.