[cmake-developers] Git for windows patch

[Konstantin Podsvirov]

Hi, Shawn!

I am using CMake and Git on the Windows. As an IDE I use Qt Creator.

My experience is that on Windows you need to use:

"C:\Program Files [(x86)]\Git\cmd\git.exe"

If you use your proposed way, I'm having problems
work with Git in my project.

It seems to me that this decision is necessary to discuss here.

Dear list, does anyone have experience and recommendations?

15.01.2016, 02:49, "Shawn Waldon" <shawn.waldon at kitware.com>:
> Hi,
>
> Recently I had to build a project on windows whose required build git. And even though I had installed git from here [1] in the default location, I had to tell CMake where to find it every time I did a build in a clean build tree. So here is a patch that tells CMake to look in the default install location for Git for Windows [2] when asked for git. I have tested it on my windows machine and it works there.
>
> Shawn
>
> [1]: https://git-for-windows.github.io/
> [2]: C:\Program Files\Git\bin\git.exe ('Program Files (x86)' for older versions or 32 bit systems)
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Regards,
Konstantin Podsvirov