git-sdk-installer-1.0.8-64.7z.exe does not install bin/bash.exe any more

[Dirk1966]

• I was not able to find an open or closed issue matching what I'm seeing

Setup

• Start 64-bit git-sdk-installer-1.0.8-64.7z.exe

 - Windows 10-64?

$ cmd.exe /c ver

** Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19044.1387] **

 - What options did you set as part of the installation? Or did you choose the
   defaults? No I choosed different paths on a secondary hard disk P:\git-sdk-64, P:\Prg\t1\git-sdk-64

• Any other interesting things about your environment that might be related
  to the issue you're seeing?

Searching bash.exe should show three files, the git-sdk-64/bin/bash.exe is missing:

Previous installations:

** find /p/Prg/git-sdk-64 -type f -name 'bash.exe' -exec ls -l '{}' ;
** -rwxr-xr-x 1 user 197121 46096 Nov 26 21:37 /p/Prg/git-sdk-64/bin/bash.exe # This file is missing since at least 2021-12-13
** -rwxr-xr-x 1 user 197121 1089162 Aug 26 18:26 /p/Prg/git-sdk-64/mingw64/libexec/busybox/bash.exe
** -rwxr-xr-x 1 user 197121 1963639 Aug 26 18:27 /p/Prg/git-sdk-64/usr/bin/bash.exe

Details

• What commands did you run to trigger this issue?

** .\git-sdk-installer-1.0.8-64.7z.exe

• What did you expect to occur after running these commands?

** A file .../git-sdk-64/bin/bash.exe exists **

• What actually happened instead?

** File .../git-sdk-64/bin/bash.exe missing in installation **

[dscho]

I don't think we ever installed the Git wrapper into <sdk>\bin. It is installed as part of the installer, though, and even the portable Git has it there, but not the SDK.

[Dirk1966]

It was installed always for at least two years up until the beginning of December 2021.
Is there a possibility to install the Git wrapper afterwards?
I prefer the git for Windows SDK because then I do not need git for Windows itself.

[dscho]

I prefer the git for Windows SDK because then I do not need git for Windows itself.

Right. I do have enough on my hands supporting Git for Windows, though ;-)

[dscho]

It was installed always for at least two years up until the beginning of December 2021.

@Dirk1966 If you have time to investigate a bit more, please do so.

[Dirk1966]

Hi,
I use a workaround to get this installed again:
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-git-doc-html
Best regards,
Dirk (Dirk1966)

1st This package copies mingw64/share/git/compat-bash.exe from package
git-for-windows/mingw-w64-x86_64-git 2.37.3.1.c4992d4fec-1
to bin/bash.exe, bin/sh.exe
2nd This package copies cmd/git.exe to bin/git.exe

[dscho]

@Dirk1966 But how come that this is not included in the installer anymore? Do we need to run something like

git -c alias.x="!. /var/lib/pacman/local/mingw-w64-x86_64-git-[0-9]*/install && post_install" x

after this line?

[Dirk1966]

Sorry, never built the SDK myself, do not know where to look for.

[PhilipOakley]

The SDK installer is in the build-extra repo here.

It (when installing) does a bit of bootstrapping that clones, depth=1, the appropriate SDK setup e.g. git-sdk-64.

Those SDKs are 'pacman ready' in that they are kept up to date using/matching pacman, so local updates are via pacman, rather than more fetches.

What is released here is actually a 7-zip exe that does the bootstrapping.

Hopefully that's will get you into the ball park to start looking at the right bits of code.