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authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2007-07-31 02:06:14 -0700
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2007-07-31 02:06:14 -0700
commitcf32190aa6966dea519e77cdcc80b87026beb3b4 (patch)
tree4c6a72a7b769458a1cec2c325b243b6720f216a1 /git.c
parentbef19da9b663044887ecac5ee091ca93567ef331 (diff)
downloadgit-cf32190aa6966dea519e77cdcc80b87026beb3b4.tar.gz
git.c: execution path
The comment before executing git subcommands were stale and confusing. Noticed by Jeff King. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'git.c')
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
index a647f9c61e..7a788b9cfc 100644
--- a/git.c
+++ b/git.c
@@ -443,11 +443,11 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
cmd = argv[0];
/*
- * We search for git commands in the following order:
- * - git_exec_path()
- * - the path of the "git" command if we could find it
- * in $0
- * - the regular PATH.
+ * We execute external git command via execv_git_cmd(),
+ * which looks at "--exec-path" option, GIT_EXEC_PATH
+ * environment, and $(gitexecdir) in Makefile while built,
+ * in this order. For scripted commands, we prepend
+ * the value of the exec_path variable to the PATH.
*/
if (exec_path)
prepend_to_path(exec_path, strlen(exec_path));