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

On Dec 23, 2007 8:45 PM, Abdelrazak Younes [off-list ref] wrote:

Marco Costalba wrote:

quoted

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)

quoted

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