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cmake: support local installations of git

Message ID pull.1304.git.1658912756815.gitgitgadget@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Commit 476e54b1c604c7e0bb5265e8995e53aad1a13877
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Series cmake: support local installations of git | expand

Commit Message

Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón July 27, 2022, 9:05 a.m. UTC
From: =?UTF-8?q?Carlo=20Marcelo=20Arenas=20Bel=C3=B3n?= <carenas@gmail.com>

At least in systems where the user is local and not an administrator
git will install in a subdirectory of %APPDATALOCAL%, so it makes
sense to also look there for the shell needed by the cmake integration
with Visual Studio.

Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
---
    cmake(windows): fall back to user-wide Git if there is no system Git
    
    On Windows, software is typically either installed into C:\Program
    Files, where all users can use it, or into a location inside the user's
    home directory, where only that particular user can use the software.
    
    Git for Windows strongly encourages system-wide installations, but does
    not prevent user-wide installations.
    
    When building Git via CMake, this matters because we rely on Git for
    Windows to provide the POSIX shell that is needed to run Git's generator
    scripts such as generate-cmdlist.sh. So far, we only found Git for
    Windows if it was installed system-wide, but with this here patch, we
    also find any user-wide installation.

Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-1304%2Fdscho%2Fcmake-and-user-wide-g4w-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-1304/dscho/cmake-and-user-wide-g4w-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/1304

 contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)


base-commit: 6a475b71f8c4ce708d69fdc9317aefbde3769e25
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diff --git a/contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt b/contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt
index 1b23f2440d8..2237109b57f 100644
--- a/contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@  if(USE_VCPKG)
 	set(CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE ${VCPKG_DIR}/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake CACHE STRING "Vcpkg toolchain file")
 endif()
 
-find_program(SH_EXE sh PATHS "C:/Program Files/Git/bin")
+find_program(SH_EXE sh PATHS "C:/Program Files/Git/bin" "$ENV{LOCALAPPDATA}/Programs/Git/bin")
 if(NOT SH_EXE)
 	message(FATAL_ERROR "sh: shell interpreter was not found in your path, please install one."
 			"On Windows, you can get it as part of 'Git for Windows' install at https://gitforwindows.org/")