Hi, On Mon, 7 Jul 2008, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote:
> 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? Almost right: they affect all users that happen to call Git _there_. > 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); No, because that would affect all msysGit installations. Ciao, Dscho
