On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 3:21 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <ava...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> I think it would be more idiomatic and more paranoid (we'll catch bugs)
> to do:
> my $exec_path;
> if (exists $ENV{GIT_EXEC_PATH}) {
> $exec_path = $ENV{GIT_EXEC_PATH};
> } else {
> [...]
> }
> I.e. we're interested if we got passed GIT_EXEC_PATH, so let's see if it
> exists in the env hash, and then use it as-is. If we have some bug where
> it's an empty string we'd like to know, presumably...
Good idea, done.
> > +
> > + # Trim off the relative gitexecdir path to get the system path.
> > + (my $prefix = $exec_path) =~ s=${gitexecdir_relative}$==;
> The path could contain regex metacharacters, so let's quote those via:
> (my $prefix = $exec_path) =~ s/\Q$gitexecdir_relative\E$//;
> This also nicely gets us rid of the more verbose ${} form, which makes
> esnse when we're doing ${foo}$ instead of the arguably less readbale
> $foo$, but when it's \Q$foo\E$ it's clear what's going on.
Ah cool - makes sense. I'm not strong with Perl, so I wasn't aware that
this was an option, but I agree it's cleaner. Done.
