Re: GIT_EXEC_PATH Re: 1.2.1 pre-release testing

[François]

On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 01:24:51PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 01:35:45PM +0200, François wrote:
> > GIT_EXEC_PATH is very probably at fault.
> > 
> > It is set via profile to allow to use git subcommands installed by other
> > packages but it has no sane default when we are outside a profile.
> > 
> > Perhaps git should have a wrapper to manage this use-case.
> 
> I think it does work properly in Guix, but requires the user to log in
> again after installing Git. That's because a lot of Guix stuff is set up
> in the login shell initialization scripts. It might even be enough to do
> `bash --login` after installing the package.

I had exactly the same problem on foreing distro after installing git
and trying to use it without reloading ~/.guix-profile/etc/profile in
my current shell. So yes, it is just a matter of refreshing the current
environment.

> I guess that many of us install Git right away, so we don't notice a
> problem.

Probably.