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Bug 367174

Summary:	Warn if no system config is found
Product:	[Technology] EGit	Reporter:	Jan Koops <flood>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Project Inbox <egit.core-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	P3	CC:	flood, Lars.Vogel, matthias.sohn, robin.rosenberg
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Jan Koops

2011-12-20 07:21:48 EST

Build Identifier: 

In our enterprise setup we install msysgit on windows without adding git.exe to the PATH, as the installer suggests.
As a consequence jgit does not find the msysgit installation and the system config is not used by jgit/egit.

Workaround: Pass -Djgit.gitprefix=C:\path\to\ in eclipse.ini

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install msysgit without adding git.exe to PATH
2. Open git-preferences configuration->system settings is empty
3.

Comment 1 Jan Koops

2012-01-23 03:20:38 EST

The solution for bug 301775 adds a configuration for this, so the workaround is to browse for msysgit-gitconfig.

Comment 2 Matthias Sohn

2012-02-27 03:38:39 EST

Can we close this with https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/4430/ which was merged recently ?

Comment 3 Jan Koops

2012-02-28 07:43:13 EST

For us  https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/4430/ is sufficient, as we'll preconfigure this for our developers via the workspace.

I think it's still a problem for standard users:
They install msysgit with defaults, and e.g. go through a git tutorial. When they start using egit their config is silently ignored. egit could scan the windows registry for the msysgit uninstall key, the install location is noted there:
SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Git_is1\InstallDir

https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/blob/devel/share/WinGit/helpers.inc.iss#L56


I'll leave it up to you to close this bug.

Comment 4 Robin Rosenberg

2012-09-23 07:22:15 EDT

I think https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/6436/ satisfies this