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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"presence of 'uname' not a definite criteria for CYGWIN","articleBody":"https://github.com/gitpython-developers/GitPython/blob/a52722421e9afd333ed60be1ebf5a5aebb9a7e05/git/util.py#L467\n\nsee also this discussion:\nhttps://github.com/oxwhirl/pymarl/issues/113\n\nThe subject is, your code wants to look after a maybe or maybe not present program file of 'uname' in the same folder where 'git' is located.\n\nIn case there is no such file your code raises a benign exception. But in fact its rather expected. Thus an is_present() check upfront would avoid such a sort of non-needed but irritating message for 99% of all use cases on regular Linux. (fix 1)\n\nIf its not present you might find it somewhere else - probably just by going for the default search path... (fix 2)\n\nIf the program is finally there, then the program can be queried with option '-s' and the returned string could be compared to **its leading chars** matching with \"CYGWIN\", thus setting the result from the innermost block accordingly. (fix 3)\n\nfor the expectable results of a 'uname' query see also: https://stackoverflow.com/a/3466183/3423146\n\nbackgrounder:\ni have Linux with some self-updated versions of git plus a bunch of other tools - and thus using sort of variations of /usr/bin, /usr/local/bin and probably a few more locations. same can be for Mac, Cygwin or wherever. So the strategy to simply probing for one application sitting in the same folder as some other application has a bigger bunch of chances to fail - and so your codes might fail for it in various ways - giving a chance for a false result in either way: indicating Cygwin where there is not, and denying Cygwin where it really is. (=Bug)","author":{"url":"https://github.com/alexanderLinear","@type":"Person","name":"alexanderLinear"},"datePublished":"2024-11-22T14:58:45.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":2},"url":"https://github.com/1979/GitPython/issues/1979"}