[Cygwin] 'up' ... not able to execute

[sverhagen]

I believe I successfully installed PyGitUp:

$ pip install git-up
Collecting git-up
  Using cached git-up-1.3.0.zip
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): GitPython==1.0.0 in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from git-up)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): colorama==0.3.3 in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from git-up)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): termcolor==1.1.0 in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from git-up)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): docopt==0.6.2 in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from git-up)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): six==1.9.0 in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from git-up)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): gitdb>=0.6.4 in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from GitPython==1.0.0->git-up)
Requirement already satisfied (use --upgrade to upgrade): smmap>=0.8.5 in /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (from gitdb>=0.6.4->GitPython==1.0.0->git-up)
Building wheels for collected packages: git-up
  Running setup.py bdist_wheel for git-up
  Stored in directory: /home/sverhagen/.cache/pip/wheels/19/3b/05/ac8c235883c0b388b9376f8da07d37a5b7f147bf4a9c319002
Successfully built git-up
Installing collected packages: git-up
Successfully installed git-up-1.3.0

I did this using Run As Administrator.

I did all this in Cygwin.

Now it does not work:

$ git up
fatal: 'up' appears to be a git command, but we were not
able to execute it. Maybe git-up is broken?

Do you have any suggestions, thank you!

[msiemens]

Seems like you didn't add the directory where pip installs executables to your $PATH. I'm not sure where pip puts executables on Cygwin, could you check if there is a git-up.exe is in %APPDATA%/Python/Scripts or ~/.local/bin? If it doesn't could you post the path to your Python interpreter?

[sverhagen]

Thank you. There is a git-up in C:\cygwin64\bin, and git-up as a command works (I can just use that). There isn't any git-up.exe on my system. I don't have $APPDATA/Python, probably because this Python comes with Cygwin, and that might possibly also be where this all breaks down. Nor do I have a ~/.local.

[msiemens]

There is a git-up in C:\cygwin64\bin, and git-up as a command works (I can just use that). There isn't any git-up.exe on my system.

Do you also use Cygwin's git? Or have you installed MSysGit/Git for Windows? It seems like git searches for an .exe file here...

[sverhagen]

This is a standalone Git, (git version 1.9.4.msysgit.2) used from within Cygwin. Which isn't without its problems, anyway. But just the same in a Windows Command Prompt, I get the same result:

C:\Users\sverhagen>git --version
git version 1.9.4.msysgit.2

C:\Users\sverhagen>git up
fatal: 'up' appears to be a git command, but we were not
able to execute it. Maybe git-up is broken?

There is no .exe file because I installed it from within Cygwin? I'm not sure what the suggestion is, here?

[msiemens]

There is no .exe file because I installed it from within Cygwin?

Exactly. The standalone Git seems to be confused by the shell script that is (I guess) installed by pip. As far as I can see the problem can be fixed by either installing Git for Cygwin or using Python for Windows. But maybe you can work around it by placing a file called git-up.bat in your PATH with the following contents:

@echo off
python -m PyGitUp.gitup %*

This .bat script invokes PyGitUp and passes all arguments it received. If we're lucky, Git will execute the .bat script and not the shell script.

[sverhagen]

That doesn't work for me, but that is fine. I think the conclusion is: don't try to do this on a mixed set of Cygwin and Python and Git. The Git for Cygwin has never worked well for me, hence this mixed set. In terms of workarounds, typing git-up works fine!

[msiemens]

Okay, thanks for reporting the workaround!