On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:17:08PM -0500, Brandon Casey wrote: > Some platforms (like SunOS and family) have kept their common binaries at > some historical moment in time, and introduced new binaries with modern > features in a special location like /usr/xpg4/bin or /usr/ucb. Some of the > features provided by these modern binaries are expected and required by git. > If the featureful binaries are not in the users path, then git could end up > using the less featureful binary and fail. > > So provide a mechanism to prepend elements to the users PATH at runtime so > the modern binaries will be found. My concern with this is that the PATH bleeds over into things we execute on behalf of the user, like GIT_EDITOR or snippets in git-filter-branch. So we can end up surprising users that way. On the other hand, I don't know how big a problem that is in practice. I feel like any sane Solaris user is going to have xpg4 in their PATH these days. -Peff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html