git-svn: search --authors-prog in PATH too
In 36db1eddf9 ("git-svn: add --authors-prog option", 2009-05-14) the path
to authors-prog was made absolute because git-svn changes the current
directory in some situations. This makes sense if the program is part of
the repository but prevents searching via $PATH.
The old behaviour is still retained, but if the file does not exists, then
authors-prog is searched for in $PATH as any other command.
Signed-off-by: Andreas Heiduk <asheiduk@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>
diff --git a/Documentation/git-svn.txt b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
index 636e090..b858374 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-svn.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-svn.txt
@@ -657,6 +657,11 @@
expected to return a single line of the form "Name <email>",
which will be treated as if included in the authors file.
+
+Due to historical reasons a relative 'filename' is first searched
+relative to the current directory for 'init' and 'clone' and relative
+to the root of the working tree for 'fetch'. If 'filename' is
+not found, it is searched like any other command in '$PATH'.
++
[verse]
config key: svn.authorsProg
