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"Matthias Andree" <matthias.andree@gmx.de> writes:

>> Fine then.  Or you could just append "." to the $PATH ;-)
>
> "." in the super user's PATH? Cool stuff, and so innovative.

I didn't mean to suggest PATH=$PATH:. *in the user's environment* ;-).
You do that inside GIT-VERSION-FILE, which is essentially the same thing
as running ./git$X from there.

What's innovative is whoever is running build as root.