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Re:Search “/usr/bin/git” by egwynn on Monday April 18, 2016 @12:09PM (#11520989)
I may be wrong, but I think the point of this post is to show that all of these projects are losing a degree of portability by making the assumption that the `git` binary lives in `/usr/bin` on its target platform. There are many *nixes (like most BSDs, afaik) for which this assumption is incorrect.

EDIT: If that’s actually the goal here, though, I think this example doesn’t really make a solid argument. A ton of these results are from people’s personal dotfiles or from projects that have separate files for platforms that don’t keep `git` in `/usr/bin`.

Re:Search “/usr/bin/git” by yeezul on Monday April 18, 2016 @01:14PM (#11521491)
Ah... I see. I suppose that kind of makes sense.

However, as you mentioned, I see plenty of people's personal config files, such as the many sublime text settings folders, or other .xml files.