Johannes Sixt said the following on 07.07.2008 21:11:
The intent of the function is to have a relocatable binary that does not use
absolute compiled-in paths. For this purpose, DEFAULT_GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR and
ETC_GITCONFIG are defined as relative paths that are interpreted as relative
to git_exec_path() (which itself depends on GIT_EXEC_PATH unless overridden
via environment or program option).
The trivial way out is, of course, to define gitexecdir = $(bindir) in the
Makefile. This will have an effect *only* on how the programs are installed,
but will leave the internals unchanged.
But what do we really want?
Now, reading this I wonder if really it should be something different.
The ETC_GITCONFIG and DEFAULT_GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR are really pointing to
configurations which affect all users, right? Shouldn't they then be
located under the "All Users"/"Default User" directory? Normally under
"C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data", but retrievable by
SHGetSpecialFolderPath(0, pszPath, CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA, 0);
Folder description:
"This folder should be used for application data that is not user
specific. For example, an application may store a spell check
dictionary, a database of clip-art or a log file in the
CSIDL_COMMON_APPDATA folder. This information will not roam and is
available to anyone using the computer. By default, this location is
read-only for normal (non-admin, non-power) Users."
Just a brief thought..
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.marius
