Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] run-command (Windows): Run dashless "git <cmd>" (solves part of problem with system_path)

"Shawn O. Pearce" [off-list ref] writes:

This feels wrong to me.  fast-import probably won't be adversly
impacted by not being able to read /etc/gitconfig, unless the user
has set something like core.deltaBaseCacheLimit and is doing an
incremental import.  But other non-builtins may be impacted.

It feels like we're fixing this in the wrong place.  If the issue
is we don't find our installation directory correctly, we should
find our installation directory correctly, not work around it by
calling builtins through the git wrapper.

Though I can see where it may be a good idea to at some point
in the future (git 1.7?) stop creating the redundant builtin
links under libexec/git-core.

I agree; that is why I already applied Steffen's original patch with quite
a different justification from the updated one:

commit b048b9a803f48d88595877271b53bf9ec400e4ba
Author: Steffen Prohaska [off-list ref]
Date:   Mon Jul 28 07:50:28 2008 +0200

    run-command (Windows): Run dashless "git <cmd>"
    
    We prefer running the dashless form, and POSIX side already does so; we
    should use it in MinGW's start_command(), too.
    
    Signed-off-by: Steffen Prohaska [off-list ref]
    Acked-by: Johannes Sixt [off-list ref]
    Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano [off-list ref]