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| author |  Dan Jacques <dnj@google.com> | 2018-04-10 11:05:44 -0400 |
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| committer |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2018-04-11 18:10:28 +0900 |
| commit | 226c0ddd0d63dd6c8dde497c755af2ad1f02e0c1 (patch) | |
| tree | 232d124263ccd6aa6370ac0e100c32b68c70fb94 /Documentation/RelNotes/1.5.2.2.txt | |
| parent | Makefile: add Perl runtime prefix support (diff) | |
| download | tgif-226c0ddd0d63dd6c8dde497c755af2ad1f02e0c1.tar.xz | |
exec_cmd: RUNTIME_PREFIX on some POSIX systems
Enable Git to resolve its own binary location using a variety of
OS-specific and generic methods, including:
- procfs via "/proc/self/exe" (Linux)
- _NSGetExecutablePath (Darwin)
- KERN_PROC_PATHNAME sysctl on BSDs.
- argv0, if absolute (all, including Windows).
This is used to enable RUNTIME_PREFIX support for non-Windows systems,
notably Linux and Darwin. When configured with RUNTIME_PREFIX, Git will
do a best-effort resolution of its executable path and automatically use
this as its "exec_path" for relative helper and data lookups, unless
explicitly overridden.
Small incidental formatting cleanup of "exec_cmd.c".
Signed-off-by: Dan Jacques <dnj@google.com>
Thanks-to: Robbie Iannucci <iannucci@google.com>
Thanks-to: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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