Merge branch 'js/maint-1.6.0-exec-path-env' into maint

[thirdparty/git.git] / exec_cmd.c

diff --git a/exec_cmd.c b/exec_cmd.c
index 217c12577f52b8ff9d535a086ec75d54107ee01c..408e4e55e1c58931444c772d35d23b505bf3e2ea 100644 (file)
--- a/exec_cmd.c
+++ b/exec_cmd.c
@@ -61,6 +61,10 @@ const char *git_extract_argv0_path(const char *argv0)
 void git_set_argv_exec_path(const char *exec_path)
 {
        argv_exec_path = exec_path;
+       /*
+        * Propagate this setting to external programs.
+        */
+       setenv(EXEC_PATH_ENVIRONMENT, exec_path, 1);
 }