Re: [msysgit] how to detect git.exe directory?

From: Marco Costalba <mcostalba@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 23, 2007, 20:04 UTC
Message-ID: <e5bfff550712231204m6dad571ct8c2f5e2eb4a23de0@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <476EBADE.6080805@free.fr>

On Dec 23, 2007 8:45 PM, Abdelrazak Younes <younes.a@free.fr> wrote:

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> Marco Costalba wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> Glad you manage to do it by yourself. Sorry for not going further with
> compilation as I promised but the git repository had only a MSVC2008
> solution file and I have only MSVC2005 here. I tried to adapt our CMake
> files to qgit but failed...
>

Don't worry, I have installed MSVC2008, compiled Qt4 (and everithing went smooth) and bruefly tested qgit: it really seems to work, now following steps are:

- Detect git.exe directory at runtime also when is not in PATH (see below)

- Manage to package qgit and others needed files in a windows
installer (I know very little about this)

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> > So my question is: "What is the preferred way to detect git directory
> > at runtime for msysgit files?"
>
> If you use QProcess to launch git, maybe you could just use
> QProcess::workingDirectory()?
>

It's not the repository that I don't find, but the git binary directory. I explain better. If I open a console under windows with cmd.exe and type "git" when I hit enter button I have an error message that says that "command git is not known"

This is because git.exe directory is _not_ (normally) in PATH environment variable.

So, or msysgit installation *modifies* the user PATH adding the bin directory, or I have to found git bin directory myself and manage to add to the PATH of qgit process environment.

The question is: "How I find git.exe??"

Marco