Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] RUNTIME_PREFIX relocatable Git

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Mon, Mar 19 2018, Dan Jacques jotted:

> I'm dusting this back off now that avarab@'s Perl Makefile simplification
> patch set has landed. It's been a few months, so I'm a bit rusty, but I think
> that I've incorporated all of the feedback. Please take a look and let me know
> what you think!

Thanks a lot, sans the tiny nits I noted in individual patch review (and
stuff noted by others) these all look good to me.

Also it would be great if you could test it for your use-case with the
next branch and define my new INSTALL_SYMLINKS to check that it doesn't
ruin anything for you, it shouldn't since I made it use relative
symlinks, but better to make sure (maybe I missed some edge case, and
we're largely modifying code in similar places).

Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] RUNTIME_PREFIX relocatable Git

[Junio C Hamano]

Dan Jacques  writes:

> This patch set expands support for the RUNTIME_PREFIX configuration flag,
> currently only used on Windows builds, to include Linux, Darwin, and
> FreeBSD. When Git is built with RUNTIME_PREFIX enabled, it resolves its
> ancillary paths relative to the runtime location of its executable
> rather than hard-coding them at compile-time, allowing a Git
> installation to be deployed to a path other than the one in which it
> was built/installed.
>
> Note that RUNTIME_PREFIX is not currently used outside of Windows.
> This patch set should not have an impact on default Git builds.
>
> I'm dusting this back off now that avarab@'s Perl Makefile simplification
> patch set has landed. It's been a few months, so I'm a bit rusty, but I think
> that I've incorporated all of the feedback. Please take a look and let me know
> what you think!

Yay.  Thanks for rebooting the effort.