Re: [PATCH] add strcpy_user_path() and use it in init-db.c and git.c

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Hi,

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005, Eric Wong wrote:

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Eric Wong [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

My home directories have different names on different machines I'm
on, and I want to avoid having to recompile git for each one.
I don't have root access to some of them, so installing globally in /usr
or /usr/local isn't an option, either.

Then you probably need to use GIT_EXEC_PATH environment
variable.

That works with git.c but not init-db.  But then again I don't use
git-init-db that often.  I'll just write a shell script wrapper for the
latter if I do.

How about something like this?

---
[PATCH] Introduce environment variable for the path to the templates

The environment variable GIT_TEMPLATE_PATH can override the compiled-in
setting, and can be overridden with the '--template=' argument to init-db.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <redacted>

---

	Eric said that GIT_EXEC_PATH is enough for most things, but not for
	init-db. I guess he wanted something like this.

 init-db.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

5d95ce750b09a14bcb86e07ba23077ab0825089c

diff --git a/init-db.c b/init-db.c
index 863ec1a..774a91f 100644
--- a/init-db.c
+++ b/init-db.c

@@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
 {
 	const char *git_dir;
 	const char *sha1_dir;
-	char *path, *template_dir = NULL;
+	char *path, *template_dir = getenv("GIT_TEMPLATE_PATH");
 	int len, i;
 
 	for (i = 1; i < argc; i++, argv++) {

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