IDEasy not working properly in CMD

[hohwille]

Expected behavior

As a IDEasy user on Windows, I want to be able to use IDEasy also in CMD so that I can use it from some *.bat scripts or keep my odd legacy habbits ;)

Actual behavior

Steps to reproduce (bug) / Use Case of feature request (enhancement)

1. Install IDEasy
2. Open CMD
3. cd to an IDEasy project
4. run e.g. ide intellij

Related/Dependent Issues

Comments/Hints:

Affected version:

• OS: Windows
• IDEasy 2024.11.001-beta-SNAPSHOT

[hohwille]

PR #784 does not fix this problem entirely. Good news is that starting an IDE or any tool where we create a start script for now works from CMD and from BASH.
However, there is something generally broken, when we execute bash scripts in case we have been initially launched from CMD:

D:\projects\IDEasy\software\java\bin>ide install intellij
C:/Program Files/Git/mingw64/libexec/git-core\git-submodule: line 7: basename: command not found
C:/Program Files/Git/mingw64/libexec/git-core\git-submodule: line 7: sed: command not found
C:/Program Files/Git/mingw64/libexec/git-core\git-submodule: line 22: .: git-sh-setup: file not found
Running command 'C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git.exe' with arguments '--no-pager' 'pull' '--quiet'
failed with exit code 1!
Git pull on branch master failed for repository D:\projects\_ide\urls.
Failed to update git repository at D:\projects\_ide\urls
See above error for details. If you have local changes, please stash or revert and retry.
Typically you should abort and fix the problem. Do you want to continue anyways?
Option 1: yes
Option 2: no

IMHO the shebang detection should be debugged to see what is really going on.
To me it looks as if the bash script is executed by CMD without calling the real git-bash to execute it.

Workaround: Do not use CMD at all as suggested in the documentation.
However, we still need to fix this.

[hohwille]

Seems to be closely related to devonfw/ide#1395

[alfeilex]

There are not problems using CMD to run ide intellij on Win 10.

Tested with version: ide-cli-2024.12.001-beta-20241210.023937-17-windows-x64.tar.gz

Git Version: 2.39.1

[alfeilex]

But if I run ide create <project>, I get this error:

Cloning into '.'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 1296, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (327/327), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (147/147), done.
Receiving objects: 100% (1296/1296), 236.80 KiB | 2.85 MiB/s, done. 969 (from 1)

Resolving deltas: 100% (501/501), done.
C:/Program Files/Git/mingw64/libexec/git-core\git-submodule: line 22: .: git-sh-setup: file not found
Running command 'C:\Program Files\Git\bin\git.exe' with arguments 'clone' '--recursive' 'https://github.com/devonfw/ide-settings.git' '--config' 'core.autocrlf=false' '.'
failed with exit code 1!
Step 'Clone settings repository' ended with failure.
Step 'ide (create,test)' failed: com.devonfw.tools.ide.cli.CliProcessException: Command git.exe failed with exit code 1 - full commandline was C:\Program Files\Git\bin\git.exe clone --recursive https://github.com/devonfw/ide-settings.git --config core.autocrlf=false .
 Step 'Clone settings repository' failed: unexpected error
2 step(s) failed out of 2 steps.
Command git.exe failed with exit code 1 - full commandline was C:\Program Files\Git\bin\git.exe clone --recursive https://github.com/devonfw/ide-settings.git --config core.autocrlf=false .

IDE environment variables have been set for C:\projects\dev-project in workspace main

I could fix this error by following this advice: https://stackoverflow.com/a/50833818

It was enough to add C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\libexec\git-core to the PATH since I already had C:\Program Files\Git\bin in it

[hohwille]

@alfeilex thanks for your workaround.
See also:
ionic-team/ionic-framework#12165

We should discuss if either our setup.bat script should fix this and add the missing PATH entries (invasive), or even better change ide.bat to do it transient.
To find the correct PATH to git installation see:
https://github.com/devonfw/ide/blob/8698d2ba7468d34aec82c86fabdb09b5ee84d9c8/scripts/src/main/resources/scripts/devon.bat#L38-L44

[hohwille]

D:\projects\IDEasy>where basename
INFORMATION: Es konnten keine Dateien mit dem angegebenen
Muster gefunden werden.

D:\projects\IDEasy>set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin

D:\projects\IDEasy>where basename
C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\basename.exe

[alfeilex]

D:\projects\IDEasy>set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin

I had to add C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\libexec\git-core as well, because otherwise git-sh-setup wasn't found when creating a project.