Re: how to detect git.exe directory?

On Dec 23, 2007 5:35 PM, Johannes Sixt [off-list ref] wrote:

On Sunday 23 December 2007 17:25, Marco Costalba wrote:

quoted

To easy the user and allowing to call qgit.exe double clicking on a
nice desktop icon I need a way to know where git.exe is installed *at
runtime*.

So my question is: "What is the preferred way to detect git directory
at runtime for msysgit files?"

- environment variable ??

- windows registry ??

- others ?

Running

        git --exec-path

should get you close to it. But I have to question why you need that path.

What I'm looking for is git.exe itself. If I run "git --exec-path" I
get something along the lines "git executable not found..."

I don't use dashed command inside qgit, so I run "git log ..." not
"git-log ...", but the git.exe should be known to qgit or in path.

Hope it's clear.

Thanks
Marco