I'm using Emacs 24 on OS X 10.6.8. Doing magit-status
says
Searching for program: no such file or directory, git
However, the Emacs shell is able to find git
, so this does not seem to be a $PATH
issue. What else could it be?
Try checking the value of exec-path
variable. This controls the directories which are looked by Emacs for external executables (including git).
This is a customizable variable, and you can add the path to git
to the list of existing directories.
I have the elisp snippet in my .emacs.d/init.el
file for my Emacs install under OSX, which sets both the PATH
and exec-path
correctly.
;;; Set localized PATH for OS X
(defun my-add-path (path-element)
"Add the specified PATH-ELEMENT to the Emacs PATH."
(interactive "DEnter directory to be added to path: ")
(if (file-directory-p path-element)
(progn
(setenv "PATH" (concat (expand-file-name path-element) path-separator (getenv "PATH")))
(add-to-list 'exec-path (expand-file-name path-element)))))
(if (fboundp 'my-add-path)
(let ((my-paths (list "/opt/local/bin" "/usr/local/bin" "/usr/local/git/bin")))
(dolist (path-to-add my-paths (getenv "PATH"))
(my-add-path path-to-add))))