aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/shell.c
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
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 /shell.c
parentc884dd9a54fcde71ea125c86e6b6ab92acbbc7cf (diff)
downloadgit-77cb17e940c806a4cc811bfd66187277b729a1e7.tar.gz
git-77cb17e940c806a4cc811bfd66187277b729a1e7.tar.xz
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'shell.c')
-rw-r--r--shell.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/shell.c b/shell.c
index cd316185e..fc0c73cde 100644
--- a/shell.c
+++ b/shell.c
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
#include "cache.h"
#include "quote.h"
+#include "exec_cmd.h"
static int do_generic_cmd(const char *me, char *arg)
{
@@ -7,12 +8,14 @@ static int do_generic_cmd(const char *me, char *arg)
if (!arg || !(arg = sq_dequote(arg)))
die("bad argument");
+ if (strncmp(me, "git-", 4))
+ die("bad command");
- my_argv[0] = me;
+ my_argv[0] = me + 4;
my_argv[1] = arg;
my_argv[2] = NULL;
- return execvp(me, (char**) my_argv);
+ return execv_git_cmd((char**) my_argv);
}
static struct commands {