Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 0.99.9g

Junio C Hamano wrote:

Andreas Ericsson [off-list ref] writes:

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Also places we execute git-upload-pack and git-receive-pack over
an SSH connection need to be updated to execute 'git' with the
first parameter 'upload-pack' and 'receive-pack' to make sure it
would keep working with older or newer git on the other end.

I've cooked up a patch that takes care of this if;
git daemon
is executed (rather than git-daemon)...

Actually I was more worried about these git native protocols
going over ssh, which is not helped by git-daemon.  I think
teaching the libdir to git-shell would make sense for "git
restricted shell" users, but most users coming from ssh to run
git native protocols would need to have some way of running the
executable on the other end.

My current thinking about this problem is that the handful
programs that need to run "on the other end" should stay in
/usr/bin, even after we move most things out of /usr/bin, if
only to avoid configuration hassles.  They are:

	receive-pack, upload-pack
        ssh-fetch, ssh-pull, ssh-push, ssh-upload

I liked your suggestion of deprecating the /usr/bin use a month or two 
before it's effected better. We could then provide symlinks for the 
necessary programs that point to their real locations in GIT_EXEC_PATH 
and (someday) drop those links when they're no longer needed.

Somehow libdir reminds me of where libraries are installed by
the Makefile, which usually does not mean executables, and that
was the reason I mentioned --exec-path.  Although I do not have
strong preference myself either way, I do not think the list
cares too much either, so in order not to waste time by
indecision, let's just say we use this one:

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The form will be
exec_path=$(prefix)/lib/git-@@VERSION@@
GIT_EXEC_PATH
--exec-path

for Makefile, environment and 'git', respectively. Substitute the 
obvious part with whatever you prefer.

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..., although I'm implementing Linus' idea of prepending the
GIT_EXEC_PATH to $PATH so the porcelainish scripts in git-core
shouldn't have to do it.

This sounds good to me; let's go with it.  Thanks.

I'll get busy then.

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