On Jul 11, 2008, at 11:38 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
Another example is the discussion about GIT_EXEC_PATH, see
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.msysgit/2633
This is a particularly good example that does not matter for Linux,
MacOSX, Solaris or the BSDs (Git's principal platforms!) at all.
And once this patch hits git@vger, it is still visible to other
platforms.
Hmm... on Mac OS X, applications can typically be moved freely in the
filesystem. Installing such an application means no more than mounting
a disk image that contains a directory that you can drag and drop to any
location in the filesystem. You do not need administrative rights to do
this.
For command line programs, like git, moving the installation freely is
less common. Installers often place everything in /usr/local/ (they
need administrative rights to do so). But there are other examples too.
For example, I have other vims installed in addition to the system's
vim:
/Applications/vim70/Vim.app
/Applications/MacVim-snapshot-24/mvim
that I can freely move around.
The result of our discussion on GIT_EXEC_PATH might be useful to achieve
something similar for git -- although I think that it is not an
essential
feature.
Steffen
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