On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Bernt Hansen wrote: > Nick Dokos writes: > >> Thanks! IIUC, there are then multiple forks in the decision tree: >> >> o running on Windows or on something else? >> >> o if on Windows, running native or under cygwin? >> >> o what shell am I using? cmd.exe and bash under cygwin accept >> different syntax - in particular, the GITDIR=foo solution of >> setting env variables has no hope of working under cmd.exe - >> is that correct? >> >> Sounds complicated. Maybe the best solution for now is to punt on >> the git information on Windows? >> >> (when (not (member system-type '(ms-dos windows-nt cygwin))) >> ...add git info...) >> >> What about system-type == "darwin"? Does Bernt's code work there? > > Yes it'll be complicated. Right now I think we should punt and just go > back to the old org-version reporting for windows until we can get a > better working solution since the current version breaks on windows. > I'll try to provide a patch for this. > > Manish: > > What value do you have for system-type? I expect it says 'windows-nt'
Yes, it does. > > If that's true then the problem is determining if > - git is installed > - what version? Msysgit? cygwin git? > - what shells are available (since CMD.exe has little hope of working) > - msysgit bash > - cygwin shell > - cmd (won't work if msysgit was installed with git in the msysgit > bash shell only) > - running some other shell (git-bash, cygwin) so the git executable is > available and provide the right syntax for each to Do The Right > Thing(tm) Do we test if git is installed if we are on a non-Windows system or show whatever error shell returns in case git is not installed? I tried calling cygwin git from CMD shell and it seems to work okay. So I am guessing we need to figure out how to correctly pass git command from Emacs to Windows shell. I will try to find examples from Org's PDF processing code. > > Right now I'm inclined to skip the git-version magic if system-type is > windows-nt just to stop it from breaking on that platform. Sure. I will share some information/examples if I can find anything to make it work. Thanks -- Manish> _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode