Maintainer for git?

Charles Wilson cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm
Wed Jan 29 13:58:00 GMT 2014


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...

--
Chuck


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