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The Arch Linux git package installs git-gui under /usr/lib/git-core/.

This means git-gui cannot be launched directly from the terminal without specifying the full path:

$ git-gui
bash: git-gui: command not found
$ which git-gui
which: no git-gui in (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/lib/jvm/default/bin:/usr/bin/site_perl:/usr/bin/vendor_perl:/usr/bin/core_perl)

I'm at a doublt as to what would be the way to properly solve this.

  1. Add /usr/lib/git-core/ to system-wide $PATH?

  2. Create symlink to /usr/lib/git-core/git-gui under /usr/local/bin?

  3. Report a bug in the Arch Linux package? Or upstream?

  4. Do nothing - this is not a bug?

Thank you.

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    git gui still works, right? Do you need to run it as a single word for some reason (and if so, what reason?)?
    – Michael Homer
    Jun 15, 2019 at 4:38
  • p.2, but from /usr/local/bin
    – Lazy Badger
    Jun 15, 2019 at 4:40
  • @MichaelHomer It does - and to be honest, I didn't know that was possible at all. I can settle with that. Thanks a lot.
    – Marc.2377
    Jun 15, 2019 at 4:42

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This is expected behaviour. All git sub-commands are installed to there — you will also find git-commit there, though probably as a link to the main binary for efficiency these days — and the main git command knows where to find them.

Any executable git-X there becomes available as git X automatically, and that's the expected way to access them rather than by path or the hyphenated name. git gui is the normal way to access the git-gui executable, and is also what man git-gui will suggest.

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    I'll usually wait a little longer before accepting an answer, but this one is right on.
    – Marc.2377
    Jun 15, 2019 at 4:57

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