Re: [PATCH] Glean libexec path from argv[0] for git-upload-pack and git-receive-pack.

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

Hi,

On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Steve Haslam wrote:
  

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I think that once git-upload-pack.c et al get the argv[0] path over to 
setup_path() then there's nothing more to do; setup_path() already uses 
argv0_path in its list of paths to try. I'm confused to the reference to 
PATH, though: we're avoiding the PATH environment variable completely.
    

There is an issue in setting up the argv0_path when Git is called as "git" 
and resolved via the PATH: argv[0] then is literally "git".

And we need argv0_path for other things than just calling programs: 
relative etc/gitconfig and libexecdir.
  

Ah, I see what you meant. And all setup_path() actually does is add to 
the end of PATH. I should have understood before.

OK, I will split the patch up and tidy it.

SRH