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magit won’t work over TRAMP

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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>
To: Alex Kost <alezost <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado <at> elephly.net>, 30434 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30434: magit won’t work over TRAMP
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 14:51:40 -0500

Alex Kost <alezost <at> gmail.com> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus (2018-02-12 13:53 +0100) wrote:
>
>> The default value for “magit-git-executable” (when magit is installed
>> via Guix) appears to be a store path, such as
>> “/gnu/store/l7g5r1c2i0bf3cd71g53ajy8khdcyidz-git-2.16.1/bin/git”.  This
>> means that when magit is used over TRAMP it will try to find the exact
>> same git executable on the remote.
>>
>> Instead, magit should only look for “git” on the remote, not for the
>> exact store location of a particular git executable.
>>
>> I could only use magit over TRAMP after setting “magit-git-executable”
>> to “git”.
>
> If people will agree that changing 'magit-git-executable' is not needed,
> then I think 'git' can be removed from the inputs as it is used just for
> that variable.
>
> P.S.  I also use just "git" for 'magit-git-executable'.

That's fine with me.  IIRC, I was the one who arranged to set
'magit-git-executable' to an absolute path in the store, but in
retrospect I'm not sure it makes sense in this case, especially if it
breaks TRAMP.

     Regards,
       Mark

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