Re: [Orgmode] [PATCH 0/2] Teach org-version to include git version information

[Nick Dokos]

Manish <address@hidden> wrote:


> ... 
> Do we test if git is installed if we are on a non-Windows system or
> show whatever error shell returns in case git is not installed?
> 
> I tried calling cygwin git from CMD shell and it seems to work okay.
> So I am guessing we need to figure out how to correctly pass git
> command from Emacs to Windows shell.  I will try to find examples from
> Org's PDF processing code.
> 

Bernt's code checks for the existence of the .git subdirectory
in the parent directory of wherever emacs get the org.el[c] library:
if it's present, then the assumption is that git is installed.

HTH,
Nick