Jeff King <p...@peff.net> writes: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 11:41:05AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > >> - builtin/merge.c is the same, but it is conceptually even worse. >> It has the end-user supplied string and wants to see if it is a >> valid strategy. If the user wants to use a custom strategy, a >> single stat() to make sure if it exists should suffice, and the >> error codepath should load the command list to present the names >> of available ones in the error message. > > Is it a single stat()? I think we would need to check each element of > $PATH.
Yeah, load_command_list() iterates over the members of env_path. > Though in practice, the exec-dir would be the first thing we > check, and where we would find the majority of hits. So it would still > be a win, as we would avoid touching anything but the exec-dir in the > common case. Exactly. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
