gix-path v0.12.2

Bug Fixes

• local clones succeed even if git-upload-pack is not in PATH
  Local clones spawn the service program, like git-upload-pack, by name and would
  fail if it could not be found in PATH. This is common on Windows, where git can
  be installed such that git itself is available but its subcommands are not, for
  instance with scoop.

  Now, when spawning the service program for a local repository fails because it
  cannot be found, find the same program in the directory that git --exec-path
  reports - the location git itself uses to run its subcommands - and run it from
  there. If it cannot be found there either, run the git binary that is always
  findable with the service as its subcommand, which it can always dispatch.

  Remote transports are unaffected - they keep the standard invocation so servers
  can provide their own implementations - and no shell is involved in any of this.

  The newly added gix_path::env::core_dir_program() provides the lookup and may
  serve other Git-provided programs in the future.

  Git for Windows builds with SKIP_DASHED_BUILT_INS and thus does not provide
  programs for builtin subcommands like git-upload-pack in its core directory.
  The test now grounds itself in a listing of that directory instead, and the
  documentation of core_dir_program() points out the difference - such programs
  are still run through git itself thanks to the second fallback.

Commit Statistics

• 7 commits contributed to the release.
• 50 days passed between releases.
• 1 commit was understood as conventional.
• 1 unique issue was worked on: #2313

Commit Details

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• #2313
  • Local clones succeed even if git-upload-pack is not in PATH (82cdb47)
• Uncategorized
  • Merge pull request #2700 from ameyypawar/fix/2313-upload-pack-fallback (9884f48)
  • Review (151a0af)
  • Merge pull request #2693 from Manishearth/relative-path-transparent (19bdf8a)
  • Annotate RelativePath transmute types for clippy (7ef83ca)
  • Actually mark RelativePath as transparent (d5f3723)
  • Merge pull request #2618 from GitoxideLabs/report (f7d4f33)