Re: [PATCH] use "git init-db" in tests

Junio C Hamano, Thu, Dec 08, 2005 21:47:41 +0100:
> 
> > Unless there was a special reason to use git-init-db from $PATH, could
> > the patch below be accepted? It makes the test suite use git-init-db
> > from the "the binaries we have just built".
> 
> A few lines above what you patched we do make sure the PATH
> starts with the top of the build directory where you would find
> git-init-db we have just built, so unless I am missing something...
> 

You do miss something. glibc will happily continue lookup if
git-init-db in the top of the build directory is not executable, and
it will take the next one it finds (and people _will_ have git-init-db
in PATH).

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