Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: >> Two questions that would come to the readers' minds are >> >> - Why "it fails to detect the system prefix correctly"? Is that a >> bug waiting to hurt end users? > > I recall explaining that already in a different thread (one that actually > *was* about the RUNTIME_PREFIX feature, where you asked why we cannot test > for it in the test suite): to verify that we are in a valid Git > installation location,... > ... But that was clarified already to your satisfaction in the RUNTIME_PREFIX > patches. Or do you want to reopen that case now? This is not about me. It is about those who read _this_ commit --- if the change is justified to them clearly enough, then we'd be happy. I did not think it is with the proposed log message, and that is where my comment came from.