On 8/10/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Steffen Prohaska wrote: > > > I recognized that '.' is included in the PATH in /etc/profile. > > I don't think this is a good idea. At least it bit me once when > > I expected to run /bin/git but instead /git/./git was chosen. > > Shouldn't we remove '.' from the PATH? > > In my experience, Windows users (not Mac users forced to use Windows) > _expect_ "." to be in the PATH. ...because they _cannot_ know otherwise. In Windows, you cannot remove "." from PATH, it is implicitly in it. It is actually worse than that: the system directories are in PATH too. Unconditionally. Yes, the same system directories all them programs put their .exes into. - 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
