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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 36 deletions
diff --git a/git.c b/git.c
index c7cabf5f34..4e10581101 100644
--- a/git.c
+++ b/git.c
@@ -6,28 +6,6 @@
const char git_usage_string[] =
"git [--version] [--exec-path[=GIT_EXEC_PATH]] [-p|--paginate|--no-pager] [--bare] [--git-dir=GIT_DIR] [--work-tree=GIT_WORK_TREE] [--help] COMMAND [ARGS]";
-static void prepend_to_path(const char *dir, int len)
-{
- const char *old_path = getenv("PATH");
- char *path;
- int path_len = len;
-
- if (!old_path)
- old_path = "/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin";
-
- path_len = len + strlen(old_path) + 1;
-
- path = xmalloc(path_len + 1);
-
- memcpy(path, dir, len);
- path[len] = ':';
- memcpy(path + len + 1, old_path, path_len - len);
-
- setenv("PATH", path, 1);
-
- free(path);
-}
-
static int handle_options(const char*** argv, int* argc, int* envchanged)
{
int handled = 0;
@@ -408,7 +386,7 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
{
const char *cmd = argv[0] ? argv[0] : "git-help";
char *slash = strrchr(cmd, '/');
- const char *exec_path = NULL;
+ const char *cmd_path = NULL;
int done_alias = 0;
/*
@@ -418,10 +396,7 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
*/
if (slash) {
*slash++ = 0;
- if (*cmd == '/')
- exec_path = cmd;
- else
- exec_path = xstrdup(make_absolute_path(cmd));
+ cmd_path = cmd;
cmd = slash;
}
@@ -458,16 +433,12 @@ int main(int argc, const char **argv)
cmd = argv[0];
/*
- * 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.
+ * We use PATH to find git commands, but we prepend some higher
+ * precidence paths: the "--exec-path" option, the GIT_EXEC_PATH
+ * environment, and the $(gitexecdir) from the Makefile at build
+ * time.
*/
- if (exec_path)
- prepend_to_path(exec_path, strlen(exec_path));
- exec_path = git_exec_path();
- prepend_to_path(exec_path, strlen(exec_path));
+ setup_path(cmd_path);
while (1) {
/* See if it's an internal command */