On Thu, Jan 02, 2014 at 11:41:05AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > - builtin/merge.c is the same, but it is conceptually even worse. > It has the end-user supplied string and wants to see if it is a > valid strategy. If the user wants to use a custom strategy, a > single stat() to make sure if it exists should suffice, and the > error codepath should load the command list to present the names > of available ones in the error message. Is it a single stat()? I think we would need to check each element of $PATH. Though in practice, the exec-dir would be the first thing we check, and where we would find the majority of hits. So it would still be a win, as we would avoid touching anything but the exec-dir in the common case. -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