Bastien <b...@altern.org> writes: > Hi Markus, > > Markus Heller <helle...@gmail.com> writes: > >> please forgive if this is an RTFM question, but how would I go about >> updating the org git archive from within emacs? This is what you are >> referring to, correct? > > If I may try to help -- Achim suggests that the directory where you have > your git executable is not known by Emacs. > > Can you try this? > > M-x getenv RET PATH RET > => [returns the directories in your PATH environment variable]
C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\cmd;C:\Program Files (x86)\GNU\GnuPG\pub;C:\Program Files (x86)\sparky\bin;C:\Program Files (x86)\Mozilla Firefox;C:\Program Files (x86)\OpenBabel-2.3.1;C:\texmf\miktex\bin\x64 > M-! whereis git RET > => [returns the path for your git executable] 'whereis' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. > If the two are not in sync, then Emacs will not find your git > executable and you'll not be able to update a git repo from Emacs. So I don't use emacs under cygwin, and I guess this is why whereis doesn't work ... Anyhow, git *is* in my PATH, but I think my issue is that I don't know how to update a git repo from *within* emacs. Would you be able to give pointers please? Thanks Markus
