Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] exec_cmd: RUNTIME_PREFIX on some POSIX systems

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

Dan Jacques <dnj@google.com> writes:

>> In Git for Windows, we have an almost identical patch:
>>
>> https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/commit/bdd739bb2b0b
>>
>> We just guard the call to system_path() behind a test whether podir is
>> already absolute, but these days, system_path() does that itself.
>>
>> I am too little of a Perl expert to be helpful with the other patches, but
>> I would gladly runa build & test on Windows if you direct me to an
>> easily-pullable branch.
>
> Oh interesting - I've only peripherally looked at Git-for-Windows code,
> since Chromium uses its packages verbatim (thanks, BTW!). I think you're
> correct though - this patch set seems to be doing the same thing.
>
> I've been force-pushing my changes to the "runtime-prefix" branch of my Git
> fork for travis.ci testing. The latest commit on that branch adds a
> "config.mak" for testing, so one commit from the branch head will contain
> the sum set of this patch series applied at (or near) Git's master branch:
>
> https://github.com/danjacques/git/tree/runtime-prefix~1
>
> Let me know if this is what you are looking for, and if I can offer any
> help with Windows testing. Thanks!

FWIW, I plan to include this somewhere on 'pu' for today's
integration cycle, so dj/runtime-prefix topic branch would also be
what can easily be grabbed.