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Rivo

19 Jul, 2012 11:32 PM

Hi all,

Your reply was far too short. Can you just point me to how you call msysgit from Rstudio?

Rationale: There should be no problem using cygwin's git as it is the one closer to the Unix version. I can call cygwin's git from Win7 cmd (I added its path to Win7 path) so if you don't rely on some specific msysgit extra API, it should work.

Follow-up to http://support.rstudio.org/help/discussions/problems/2542-rtudio-cy...

1. Support Staff 2 Posted by Josh Paulson on 23 Jul, 2012 09:58 PM

   

   Rivo,

   After installing mysysgit:

   http://git-scm.com/book/en/Getting-Started-Installing-Git#Installin...

   You can just go to the preferences dialog via Tools | Options and then go to the Version Control section. From here, you can tell RStudio the location of your git executable (the bin directory). All we're doing is calling git and this needs to be in the search path so we can find it.

   Also cygwin will not work as it actually has a different way of handeling ssh. You could technically reconfigure this and set it up to work with cygwin, but this will involve a bit of work and we're not familiar with all the details necessary to do so.

   Josh

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