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). -- Powered by www.kitware.com Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more information on each offering, please visit: CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
