On Thursday, August 11, 2011, Laird Nelson <ljnelson@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> The reason is that if its not on the path it cant use the git
>> executable..
>
> No, I got that part--but surely it could tell me that it recognized that the file was under Git version control, even if it knew that it couldn't actually *act* on the file? Minor point; I got it working.
Debatable. There's nothing in the .git directory that makes it clear which files are tracked or untracked without running git. And if you actually didn't have Git on your system, then you probably wouldn't be using it to track files.
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-PJ