Is this really necessary? I personally think distro people (or anybody who configures git for system-wide deployment for that matter) already has Makefile wrapper (a la debian/rules) to take care of this and other issues. - 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