Incomplete git installation packaged with cmder v1.2

[glucas]

Git is only partially functional from a clean installation of Cmder v1.2. Testing from a {cmd} shell, most git commands appear to work fine but git pull fails.

λ git --version
git version 1.9.5.msysgit.1

λ set git
GIT_INSTALL_ROOT=C:\opt\cmder\vendor\msysgit

λ where git
C:\opt\cmder\vendor\msysgit\bin\git.exe

λ git pull
git: 'pull' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.

After a bit of experimentation (see comments on #419), my guess is that some of the files that were recently removed (004761b) from vendor\msysgit\libexec\git-core are still required.

[shytikov]

👍 Can confirm this issue. Made new version of cmder so useless.

[edclement]

👍 Yeah, doing git fetch and then git merge origin/BRANCH is a pain.

[glucas]

git svn is another command that doesn't work.

[moloko]

Well this explains a lot of issues I was getting when I tried 1.2! I thought it was just something I had done wrong trying to remove my main install of msysgit so that only the one version bundled with cmder would be used, but I guess not

[Morten242]

Adding back all the git-* files to vendor\msysgit\libexec\git-core restores git pull etc. So it seems like that is indeed it.

[Stanzilla]

004761b was a silly change in general, why remove random exe files when you don't even know what they do? 👎

[iki]

Temporary workaround for #503 and #521 is to download PortableGit-1.9.5-preview20150319.7z (or newer when available) from https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/releases and extract it to vendor\msysgit.

cd cmder\vendor\msysgit
curl -k -L https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/releases/download/Git-1.9.5-preview20150319/PortableGit-1.9.5-preview20150319.7z -o git.7z
7z x -aos git.7z

[NiklasRosenstein]

@iki Thanks, that worked!

[baxtheman]

@iki Yeah, it works, thank you

[shrayasr]

@iki: Still works, thanks 👍

[svenluijten]

@iki Just ran into this issue, thanks for the clear solution! 😄