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(minor) document what to do when you have *two* gits

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...and the wrong one ends up runing
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Sitaram Chamarty 2010-04-14 23:16:29 +05:30
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@ -485,6 +485,17 @@ attempting to run git stuff.
Very easy, very simple, and completely transparent to the users :-) Very easy, very simple, and completely transparent to the users :-)
**Note**: sometimes you have a system that already has an older "git"
installed in one of the system PATHs, but you've installed a newer git in some
non-standard location and want that picked up. Because of security reasons,
gitolite will not prepend `GIT_PATH` to the PATH variable, so the older git
comes first and it gets kinda frustrating!
Here's a simple workaround. Ignore the `GIT_PATH` variable, and directly set
the full PATH in the rc file, like so:
$ENV{PATH} = "/home/sitaram/bin:$ENV{PATH}";
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