Re: "git stash" is not known to git

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 12:52:40PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:

quoted

How does it calculate its exec path?  It would appear that it would
not contain _either_ /usr/local/bin _or_ /opt/git/bin in my
installation if it can't find git-stash (which should be statable in
both places).

See exec_cmd.c:execv_git_cmd. It checks in order:
  1. --exec-path= on command line
  2. $GIT_EXEC_PATH from environment
  3. GIT_EXEC_PATH defined at compile-time (set by Makefile from
      $(gitexecdir), which is generally the same as $(bindir))

So it should have /opt/git/bin in your case, but it's possible since
that is a Makefile variable that you failed to recompile correctly after
changing its value.

quoted

Have a command handy for checking the exec path?

git --exec-path

dak@lola:/home/tmp/git$ git --exec-path
/opt/git/bin
dak@lola:/home/tmp/git$ git stash --help
Reformatting git-stash(1), please wait...
WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
-  (press RETURN)q
dak@lola:/home/tmp/git$ git-stash --help
dak@lola:/home/tmp/git$ Usage: /usr/local/bin/git-stash [ | list | show | apply | clear]

I think I'll just soak my head in a bucket.  Don't ask me _what_ I
imagined to be experiencing here.

Maybe missing out shell completion when not typing the hyphen or
similar nonsense.  Sorry for the noise.

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