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I use Emacs 24.5.1 with Spacemacs and added Msys2 to the exec-path to use git.exe

When I run 'Magit-status' I get the following error:

C:/c/user/...my-folder/ isn't an existing directory.

I can see there is something weird going on with the path. There is an extra '/c/' There is a very similar error to users that use Git from Cygwin, and there is a work around to fix that by removing the extra '/cygdrive/' added to the file path. Unfortunately I haven't found anything to fix my problem.

Any ideas anyone?

Thanks

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  • IMO, if you're on Windows and you don't use Cygwin, you're just asking for a headache and a half. I use Emacs on Cygwin everyday at work. Commented May 21, 2015 at 18:19
  • "added Msys2 to the exec-path to use git.exe" you're trying to use the git from Msys2? How about... don't. Use Git for Windows instead. Commented May 21, 2015 at 20:57
  • Thanks for your suggestions. I replaced Cygwin, Mingw and Git-for-Windows for Msys2 and never looked back. It works fast and flawlessly and it has everything the other 3 have. The one an only thing that doesn't work is Magit. If this problem can't be solved then I rather prefer to live without Magit :-) Commented May 22, 2015 at 9:48
  • @RafaelGP, FWIW, clearly, it does not work flawlessly, otherwise this question would not exist. Commented May 22, 2015 at 13:26

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There is a very similar error to users that use Git from Cygwin, and there is a work around to fix that by removing the extra '/cygdrive/' added to the file path.

The existing workaround that was recently added to next (see magit issue #1318, commits "work around a cygwin path issue" and "limit cygwin path kludge to non-cygwin Emacs with cygwin Git") works for Msys2 as well. So installing the next branch will fix the problem.

Here is a copy of the relevant function for easy reference:

(defun magit-expand-git-file-name (filename &optional localname)
  (setq filename
        (if (file-name-absolute-p filename)
            (if localname
                filename
              (concat (file-remote-p default-directory) filename))
          (expand-file-name
           filename
           (and localname (file-remote-p default-directory 'localname)))))
  (if (and (eq system-type 'windows-nt) ; together with cygwin git, see #1318
           (string-match "^/\\(cygdrive/\\)?\\([a-z]\\)/\\(.*\\)" filename))
      (concat (match-string 2 filename) ":/"
              (match-string 3 filename))
    filename))
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  • C:/c/?! Is this actually the default or does one have to actively misconfigure something to get there? By the way I would like to take this conversation to github.com/magit/magit/issues/1318. Commented May 22, 2015 at 23:17
  • Oh, actually my windows machine had an older copy of magit, the existing workaround appears to work for msys2. The C:/ part of C:/c/ is added by Emacs when it tries to deal with /c/user/...my-folder returned by msys git. Commented May 23, 2015 at 2:44
  • Thank you so much. It worked! @nanny Now Msys2 works flawlessly ;-) Commented May 23, 2015 at 9:24
  • @npostavs So I don't have to change that function at all? Commented May 25, 2015 at 19:17
  • @tarsius: yup, cygwin gives /cygdrive/c/the/repo, msys gives /c/the/repo and you already covered both. Commented May 25, 2015 at 19:56

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