Re: automatic git installation

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: May 13, 2015, 08:43 UTC
Message-ID: <b70c62b621a8288039627d4911da5af9@www.dscho.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAEcj5uXSTu+eqX3O0ecb1JnQQfjEYb38TfYhF9tUOmNV8hZCTw@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Thomas,

On 2015-05-12 21:30, Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen wrote:

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> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 10:50 AM, Knobbe, Fabian
> <Fabian.Knobbe@landisgyr.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hallo,
>>
>> I would like to automatically install git with a script. I already found some command line arguments to pass my settings to the setup routine, but I still don't know how to set "Adjust your PATH environment" to "Use Git from the Windows Command Prompt" without userinteraction.
>>
>> Thanks for any hints!
> 
> Have you looked at Chocolatey? It's a Windows-based package manager
> that lets you install software like Git in one command [1].
> 
> [1] https://chocolatey.org/packages?q=git

Good point. Please note that Chocolatey essentially takes our portable Git and repackages it.

As for proper package management, the Git SDK is based on MSys2 which sports the Pacman package manager ported from Arch Linux. Git for Windows is also available via a "Pacman" repository, and our installer essentially takes the contents of up-to-date packages and bundles them in an installer.

Ciao, Dscho