On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 02:17:32AM -0400, Jeff King wrote: > So it uses a special git-specific version of exec, and doesn't touch the > PATH. Later, we did 231af83 (Teach the "git" command to handle some > commands internally, 2006-02-26), which says at the end: > > There's one other change: the search order for external programs is > modified slightly, so that the first entry remains GIT_EXEC_DIR, but > the second entry is the same directory as the git wrapper itself was > executed out of - if we can figure it out from argv[0], of course. > > There was some question of whether this would be a problem[1], but we > realized it is OK due to 77cb17e, mentioned above.
I forgot to include my footnote, which was a link to the thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/16798 -Peff -- 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
