Re: [PATCH v7 0/3] RUNTIME_PREFIX relocatable Git

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Dan Jacques <dnj@google.com> writes:

> This patch set expands support for the RUNTIME_PREFIX configuration flag,
> currently only used on Windows builds, to include Linux, Darwin, and
> FreeBSD. When Git is built with RUNTIME_PREFIX enabled, it resolves its
> ancillary paths relative to the runtime location of its executable
> rather than hard-coding them at compile-time, allowing a Git
> installation to be deployed to a path other than the one in which it
> was built/installed.
>
> Note that RUNTIME_PREFIX is not currently used outside of Windows.
> This patch set should not have an impact on default Git builds.
>
> This is a minor update based on comments from the v6 series. If all's
> well, I'm hoping this set is good to go.

When testing the non-relocatable (i.e. traditional) Git, we use
GIT_EXEC_PATH and bin-wrappers/ trick to ensure that we test the
version we just have built, not a random version that happen to be
on the $PATH, without requiring the built product first to be
installed before being tested.  From the diffstat for this patchset,
I am guessing that you are using the same mechanism even when
testing the relocatable one.

I wonder if the relocatable Git would allow a simpler arrangement to
test without installing.

I am asking merely out of curiosity, not suggesting to make a trial
install somewhere in the build area and run the built Git normally
without GIT_EXEC_PATH trick.

Thanks.