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When I try to commit using Magit, I get the following error message:

1 c:/Users/chanyoungs/AppData/Local/GitHub/PortableGit_f02737a78695063deace08e96d5042710d3e32db/cmd/git.exe … "commit" "--"

error: cannot spawn sh: No such file or directory

error: unable to start editor '"c:/Users/chanyoungs/Documents/Programming/emacs/emacs-25.1/bin/emacsclient.exe"' Please supply the message using either -m or -F option.

Here are my settings:

  • Windows 10 64bit
  • GNU Emacs 25.2.1 (x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2017-04-24
  • Magit ver. 20170425.638
  • Git ver. 2.11.0.windows.3
  • Running Daemon

Further checks:

  • When I call git on cmd, it is called successfully
  • When I call emacsclient on cmd, in is called successfully
  • I tried running emacs with no other packages and get the same error

I searched for this error around and there are similar questions but I can't fix this with their suggestions. May be I'm not doing this right.

Any help or suggestions will be much appreciated.

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  • What's the output from git -c "alias.X=!x() { which \"$1\" | cygpath -mf -; }; x" X sh in cmd? Does c:/Users/chanyoungs/AppData\Local\GitHub\PortableGit_f02737a78695063deace08e96d5042710d3e32db\usr\bin exist?
    – npostavs
    Commented May 2, 2017 at 14:54
  • Thanks @npostavs for the quick comment. 1. When I run git -c "alias.X=!x() { which \"$1\" | cygpath -mf -; }; x" X sh on cmd I get: error: cannot spawn sh: No such file or directory fatal: While expanding alias 'X': 'x() { which "$1" | cygpath -mf -; }; x': No such file or directory 2. Yes, I just tried to find c:/Users/chanyoungs/AppData\Local\GitHub\PortableGit_f02737a‌​78695063deace08e96d5‌​042710d3e32db\usr\bi‌​n in cmd just now and I can confirm that it exists.
    – chanyoungs
    Commented May 2, 2017 at 16:04
  • Hmm, does that .../usr/bin/ directory not contain a sh.exe file? Can you run c:/Users/chanyoungs/AppData\Local\GitHub\PortableGit_f02737a‌​‌​78695063deace08e96‌​d5‌​042710d3e32db/git-bash.exe and try which sh in that shell? (and also cygpath -m $(which sh) if that doesn't error out)
    – npostavs
    Commented May 2, 2017 at 20:13
  • 1. usr/bin/ folder does contain sh.exe 2. c:/Users/chanyoungs/AppData\Local\GitHub\PortableGit_f02737a‌​‌​‌​78695063deace08e‌​96‌​d5‌​042710d3e32d‌​b/git-bash.exe runs MINGW32 3. chanyoungs@DESKTOP-L4TTJ2L MINGW32 /c/Users/chanyoungs $ which sh gives /usr/bin/sh 4. chanyoungs@DESKTOP-L4TTJ2L MINGW32 /c/Users/chanyoungs $ cygpath -m $(which sh) gives C:/Users/chanyoungs/AppData/Local/GitHub/PortableGit_f02737a78695063deace08e96d5 042710d3e32db/usr/bin/sh.exe
    – chanyoungs
    Commented May 2, 2017 at 20:37

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After trying various things, I realised that "sh" is not recognised in cmd so I tried to add the path to "sh.exe" in the environment variable. This seems to fix the problem.

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I had the same problem. In my .emacs.d/init i removed my custom line:

(add-to-list 'exec-path "C:/Users/username/PortableGit/mingw64/bin")

, so the only customized lines left were:

(add-to-list 'exec-path "C:/Users/username/PortableGit/usr/bin")
(add-to-list 'exec-path "C:/Users/username/PortableGit/bin")

There are multiple executables in the git-folder. Adding the wrong ones to exec-path does more harm than good.

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