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Re: Maintainer for git?


On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 08:58:35AM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote:
>On 1/28/2014 4:02 PM, Andrey Repin wrote:
>>> I've found that I need to do the following:
>>
>>> PATH=/usr/bin git ....
>>
>>> or I get odd failures.  So I've actually set that up as an alias:
>>
>>> alias git='PATH=/usr/bin git'
>>
>> This sounds like you have issues with the default $PATH order.
>
>Nope, /usr/bin is in the front of my regular $PATH. Check the archives 
>-- it has something to do with the size of the environment block being 
>too big when spawning the new process. IIRC.  So making the $PATH short 
>makes the env block smaller...

Yes, environment size is a persistent, irritating problem.

cgf

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