[cmake-developers] Git for windows patch

[Shawn Waldon]

Hi Kanstantin,

Thanks for the feedback.  The location of git that I have always used is
"C:\Program Files [(x86)]\bin\git.exe".  Looking at the git installation,
there is another executable "C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\cmd\git.exe", but I
have never pointed CMake at that one.  What is the difference between the
two?  I can change the patch to use the other one, but I'd like to
understand why it is necessary.

Thanks,
Shawn

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 10:42 PM, Konstantin Podsvirov <
konstantin at podsvirov.pro> wrote:

> 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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