On Sunday, March 24, 2013 11:41:04 AM UTC-7, Lewis Levin wrote: > Running Spyder on Windows 7. > Use the command "explore repository" on context menu in file explorer. > The selected folder is (or contains) a git repository (.git is present). > Spyder returns: Unable to find external program. Please install gitk. > > When trying commit, Spyder returns: .... Please install git. > > All of git is installed. This installation works with Wingware ide, > Tortoise, and Bash (mingw). > > so, the problem is in making Spyder aware of the location of the various > git executables. I cannot find where to do this. There is no general > "install external tool" available through the ui, nor in the ini file. > > I am not in love with apps that have deep layers of dependencies (many > points of failure). There is some reference to sip under PyQt, which is > where the connection to git may need to be made. But, there is no > documentation or Google search results to point to any clues. > > Can someone point me to some clues? > > Thanks. > > (Spyder is pretty nice, btw...) >
I think the approach in the patch is nice because it works out of the box for those with msysgit typical install which usually does not put git/bin on path -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "spyder" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/spyderlib?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
