[cmake-developers] Git for windows patch

[Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin]

Hi,

> The existence of <gitHome>\bin is there only for backward
-compatibility

I guess we could also add "Git/usr/bin" to the suffixes so that it prefer
newer version first ?

PATH_SUFFIXES Git/usr/bin Git/cmd Git/bin

Hth
Jc

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 11:24 AM, Paul Smith <paul at mad-scientist.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 2016-01-15 at 10:05 -0500, Shawn Waldon wrote:
> > 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.
>
> There is no difference between them.  When you install Git for Windows
> the installer gives a choice of three different ways to set up %PATH%.
>
> One way is to not add anything to %PATH%: then git is only available
> from within the Git bash shell not from within command.com shell.
>
> The second way is to make git, only (plus a few helpers like gitk,
> start-ssh-agent, etc.) available on %PATH%: then git is available from
> command.com but none of the other UNIX tools like find, diff, etc. are
> available from command.com (only from Git shell).  In this install
> method the <GitHome>\cmd directory is added to %PATH%.
>
> The last way is to allow git plus all the ming32 versions of UNIX tools
> that come with Git to be available to command.com.  In this install
> method both <gitHome>\cmd AND <gitHome>\usr\bin are added to %PATH%.
>
> The existence of <gitHome>\bin is there only for backward
> -compatibility, because some people coming from older versions of Git
> for Windows might be referencing it.  It shouldn't be used anymore by
> modern installs (it contains bash.exe and sh.exe both of which are in
> \usr\bin, and git.exe which is in \cmd).
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