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From: Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#30434: magit =?UTF-8?Q?won=E2=80=99t?= work over TRAMP
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 20:33:17 +0300
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To: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
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Ricardo Wurmus (2018-02-12 13:53 +0100) wrote:

> The default value for =E2=80=9Cmagit-git-executable=E2=80=9D (when magit =
is installed
> via Guix) appears to be a store path, such as
> =E2=80=9C/gnu/store/l7g5r1c2i0bf3cd71g53ajy8khdcyidz-git-2.16.1/bin/git=
=E2=80=9D.  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 =E2=80=9Cgit=E2=80=9D on the remote, =
not for the
> exact store location of a particular git executable.
>
> I could only use magit over TRAMP after setting =E2=80=9Cmagit-git-execut=
able=E2=80=9D
> to =E2=80=9Cgit=E2=80=9D.

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'.

--=20
Alex