getgit: flag for installation without modifying the environment #548
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passing -e has the following effects: 1. `/etc/profile.d` is not processed. 2. The context menu scripts `ctxmenu.bat` and `rm-ctxmenu.bat` are not created. 3. `/cmd` is not added to the path, programs in `/cmd` are installed to `[/usr]/bin`. Signed-off-by: Luna Saphie Mittelbach <lunarlambda@gmail.com>
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| @@ -274,4 +284,4 @@ fi | |||
| echo "Git is now available! If you want to add \"Git GUI Here\" and \"Git Bash" | |||
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These messsges should probably be modified if the context menu scripts aren't created.
| @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ function usage(){ | |||
| echo " -k keep all downloaded, extracted files in \"/tmp\"" | |||
| echo " -s skip downloading" | |||
| echo " -f forcibly update no matter what version it is" | |||
| echo " -e don't modify the environment (no /cmd in path, /etc/profile.d)" | |||
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"no /cmd in path" sounds like that part is only about not modifying $PATH, whereas the code doesn't create /cmd at all.
| process "/cmd" | ||
| process -f "/etc/profile.d" | ||
| else | ||
| cp -f $gitupk/cmd/* $bin |
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Does it make sense to copy these files to /usr/bin or /bin? Wouldn't they break MSYS2/Cygwin git? And wouldn't they be broken in /usr/bin anyways, because they expect ../mingw64/bin/git.exe etc to exist?
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As far as I understand the various tools only care about finding each other in $PATH, so it works in /cmd, /usr/bin, etc.
I think it already breaks msys2/cygwin git due to copying files into /lib, but I'm not sure.
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Most files in /cmd are compiled from git-wrapper.c and can't rely on PATH to define PATH.
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I think it already breaks msys2/cygwin git due to copying files into /lib, but I'm not sure.
process (without -f) should backup and restore those files, so it's probably the corresponding Git for Windows parts that get broken by getgit.
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Ah. Would the PR be acceptable if /cmd is left as is (and not copied to somewhere else) i.e. only skips /etc/profile.d, the registry PATH setting, and the context menu scripts? I can add a message informing the user they need to add /cmd to path themselves.
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-ehas the following effects:/etc/profile.dis not processed.ctxmenu.batandrm-ctxmenu.batare not created./cmdis not added to the path, programs in/cmdare installed to[/usr]/bininstead