using user installed git (2.5) with the suggested /bin/agent.cmd does not work

[jankatins]

The problem is that ssh-agent is not in path: the scripts expects it in path (which in my case only has C:\Program Files\Git\bin and C:\Program Files\Git\cmd -> git installed so that I can use if from cmd), but it is in C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin

There is also a start-ssh-agent.bat in C:\Program Files\Git\cmd, which works (ok, if I call it in init.bat, it prints a few funny lines :-( -> git-for-windows/git#314).

[jankatins]

probably related to #610 -> unix commands not on path

[manolenso]

two ways to fix it

mv ~/.bashrc ~/.bash_profile (.bash_profile read at start by Git 2.5)
OR
create .bash_profile file and put this code at the start to read .bashrc:

if [ -f ~/.bashrc ]
then
    . ~/.bashrc
fi

[jankatins]

@manolenso I don't think this will change anything: agent.cmd does not call git to call the real ssh-agent.exe, it's launched directly in cmder.

The problem is that git 2.5 packaged the unix commands in <git>/usr/bin instead of <git>/bin, but the init.bat only adds the second to the path. So IMO one of the following should happen:

• Add the unix tools to the path in init.bat when a git 2.5 is found (should probably happen anyway to get the unix tools)
• call ssh-agent.exe with the full path in agent.cmd
• simple use start-ssh-agent.bat instead of the cmder version agent.cmd

I would argue for the last one (less code duplication), but that's probably incompatible with git 1.x, so needs the git 2.5 update first (and a comment that git 2.5 is required to start the agent).

[Stanzilla]

#605

[thoroc]

thanks @JanSchulz

Added the extra path to the environment and modified the init.bat to take into account the new git path. and that works. 👯

Variables as follow

λ echo %GIT%
"C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin";"C:\Program Files\Git\cmd";"C:\Program Files\Git\bin"

λ echo %PATH%
C:\tools\cmder\bin;C:\Strawberry\c\bin;C:\Strawberry\perl\site\bin;C:\Strawberry\perl\bin;"C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin";"C:\Program Files\Git\cmd";"C:\Program Files\Git\bin";C:\Program Files (x86)\Vim\vim74;...

On a side note, maybe it would be good to offer the user the opportunity to set custom path for the different tools or integrate with a package manager, so we can update some tools to the latest version more easily.