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authorMichal Ostrowski <mostrows@watson.ibm.com>2006-01-10 21:12:17 -0500
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2006-01-13 16:49:01 -0800
commit77cb17e940c806a4cc811bfd66187277b729a1e7 (patch)
treeaae0b04758379c89b2dd2d02dd44c97b4d33998f /exec_cmd.h
parentc884dd9a54fcde71ea125c86e6b6ab92acbbc7cf (diff)
downloadgit-77cb17e940c806a4cc811bfd66187277b729a1e7.tar.gz
Exec git programs without using PATH.
The git suite may not be in PATH (and thus programs such as git-send-pack could not exec git-rev-list). Thus there is a need for logic that will locate these programs. Modifying PATH is not desirable as it result in behavior differing from the user's intentions, as we may end up prepending "/usr/bin" to PATH. - git C programs will use exec*_git_cmd() APIs to exec sub-commands. - exec*_git_cmd() will execute a git program by searching for it in the following directories: 1. --exec-path (as used by "git") 2. The GIT_EXEC_PATH environment variable. 3. $(gitexecdir) as set in Makefile (default value $(bindir)). - git wrapper will modify PATH as before to enable shell scripts to invoke "git-foo" commands. Ideally, shell scripts should use the git wrapper to become independent of PATH, and then modifying PATH will not be necessary. [jc: with minor updates after a brief review.] Signed-off-by: Michal Ostrowski <mostrows@watson.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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+#ifndef __GIT_EXEC_CMD_H_
+#define __GIT_EXEC_CMD_H_
+
+extern void git_set_exec_path(const char *exec_path);
+extern const char* git_exec_path(void);
+extern int execv_git_cmd(char **argv); /* NULL terminated */
+extern int execl_git_cmd(char *cmd, ...);
+
+
+#endif /* __GIT_EXEC_CMD_H_ */