Hi Christopher, Christopher Howard <[email protected]> writes:
> Hello, for a long time I've struggled with getting a path error when I > try to do a commit using emacs-magit. Here is an example log copied from > the magit-process buffer: > > ``` > 0 git … add -u -- Genesis/gen_1.org > 1 git … commit -- > hint: Waiting for your editor to close the file... > Waiting for Emacs... > *ERROR*: Searching for program: No such file or directory, git > error: There was a problem with the editor > '/gnu/store/dpky3z5844bclhswdk69z90vayy65b58-emacs-27.2/bin/emacsclient > --socket-name=/run/user/1000/emacs/server'. > Please supply the message using either -m or -F option. > ``` One thing I can think about is that emacs-magit doesn't refer to git directly: $ guix gc -R /gnu/store/xd1bvmac1p4gjxb90m875r15xna52jyr-emacs-magit-3.3.0 /gnu/store/720rj90bch716isd8z7lcwrnvz28ap4y-bash-static-5.1.8 /gnu/store/vqdsrvs9jbn0ix2a58s99jwkh74124y5-coreutils-minimal-8.32 /gnu/store/5h2w4qi9hk1qzzgi1w83220ydslinr4s-glibc-2.33 /gnu/store/4y5m9lb8k3qkb1y9m02sw9w9a6hacd16-bash-minimal-5.1.8 /gnu/store/094bbaq6glba86h1d4cj16xhdi6fk2jl-gcc-10.3.0-lib /gnu/store/hy6abswwv4d89zp464fw52z65fkzr7h5-perl-5.34.0 /gnu/store/xd1bvmac1p4gjxb90m875r15xna52jyr-emacs-magit-3.3.0 So it needs to be on your PATH. For me, the value returned by 'C-h v magit-git-executable' is "git". One thing we could do is patch the default value of this Elisp variable in our emacs-magit package to git, so that users wouldn't need installing git manually. Thanks, Maxim
