Re: Uploading a patch to Rietveld

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

Am Sonntag, 1. Mai 2011, um 23:36:16 schrieb David Kastrup:
> Graham Percival <address@hidden> writes:
> > Both methods will work, but one of them feels a bit "off".
> > 
> >> >and then try:
> >> > git-cl
> >> >
> >> >you should get a "git cl help" message at this point.
> >> 
> >> Yup :-).  Is the CG in error - it says git cl, not git-cl?
> > 
> > It should be fine either way.
> 
> Why?  AFAICS, git some-command searches a git-internal directory for a
> git-some-command binary.  

Nope. "git <command>" also searches the $PATH for the git-<command> binary.

> If you did not place the git-cl binary there,
> you can't use git cl instead.  If you did place it there, you can't use
> git-cl as it won't be in the path.

Clearly no problem as git searches the path.

Cheers,
Reinhold

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