Spacemacs ask for GIT in a Windows Installation

Question

I installed spacemacs in a folder hierarchy as below

I run it through this bat file

set HOME=%~dp0/.spacemacs
Set VAR = %cd%
"%cd%\bin\runemacs.exe"  --insecure --debug-init

It runs quite OK (it launches and start updating) BUT the package spacemacs-editing-visual ask for git program

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-missing "Searching for program" #("No such file or directory" 0 25 (charset windows-1252)) "git")
  call-process("git" nil #<buffer  *temp*> t "version")
  apply(call-process "git" nil #<buffer  *temp*> t "version")
  process-file("git" nil #<buffer  *temp*> t "version")
  apply(process-file "git" nil #<buffer  *temp*> t "version")

I cannot add git.exe to PATH variable in windows as I do not have admnistrator rights, but I have git downloaded

I already tried to :

• add git.exe to emacs bin folder
• add this to init.el

(setenv "PATH" (concat "C:/Users/JulienFERNANDEZ/OneDrive/Portable Softwares/Git/bin;" (getenv "PATH")))

But it is not working

Answer 1

You can set user-level environment variables without admin rights.

Optionally, you can modify PATH only to be seen by Emacs by putting the following line in your .bat file.

set PATH=%PATH%;C:/.../Git/bin