Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] system_path(): simplify using strip_path_suffix(), and add suffix "git"

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Hi,

On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Johannes Sixt wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin schrieb:
> > The real change is to add the suffix "git", so that a runtime prefix will
> > be computed correctly even when the executable was called in /git/ as is
> > the case in msysGit (Windows insists to search the current directory
> > before the PATH when looking for an executable).
> 
> msysgit is important enough to be supported by upstream git, in particular
> since it is *the* user of RUNTIME_PREFIX, so that this special-casing is
> warranted. Therefore:
> 
> Acked-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

Note, however, that IMHO RUNTIME_PREFIX would be good for non-Windows, 
too, as it would make Git relocatable.

Ciao,
Dscho

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