Re: emacs-repository-version on MS-Windows

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Glenn Morris <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 16:44:18 -0500
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > When we invoke subprocesses from temacs, we do that with an empty
> > process-environment (it doesn't get set when we are dumping).  So the
> > subprocess gets an almost empty environment: not even PATH is there.
> > Not sure if this can cause trouble, but it surely is worth keeping in
> > mind.
> 
> The bzr version of this intentionally avoided calling external executables.

Which was a good thing.

> (Apparently not possible with git.)

If there is, we should do that instead.