John Keeping wrote: > > I also think that there should be a way to make it really easy to > > install these third-party tools to augment the installed version of > > Git without having the source tree of Git. We have ways for them to > > ask us where things are expected to be, e.g. > > > > $ git --html-path > > $ git --man-path > > $ git --exec-path > > > > but I am not sure if these are enough, or if it would help them to > > add a bit more, then what these "a bit more" are. > > I think this is enough - now I need to go and make git-integration's > Makefile use them by default rather than just using the same defaults as > git.git. This is wrong. Subprojects should use /usr/bin/ and /usr/share/man/ and not rely on the output of `git --exec-path` and so on. For example if the user has installed Git in his $home, when building a package the package manager would use ~/libexec/git-core, which is wrong. Moreover, if you are cross-compiling you won't be able to run the target's `git` binary. If anything, it should be `pkg-config --variable=exec-path git`. -- Felipe Contreras -- 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