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I am on a windows 7 box that has msysgit installed. I also have a ruby script where I am trying to invoke git using a system() call.

system("C:/Programs/msysgit/bin/git.exe")

This does not work. Does anyone know how to get this running? I've done it on Win XP before, but cannot seem to get it working. Any example with ruby/perl/python or similar on windows will help.

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  • Are you sure it's `C:/Programs/` and not `C:/Program Files/`? – ThiefMaster May 11 '11 at 22:39
  • What do you mean it "does not work"? What happened, and what did you expect to happen instead? Error messages? Return values? – Rob Kennedy May 11 '11 at 22:52
  • Expected to see the output of the git commands in the console, instead saw no output. I know ruby is working because the output of my testing "puts(1212)" does show up. I guess I need to look on the windows XP box where the command does work, and see what they PATH= environment variable points to, then make Windows7 do the same – dreftymac May 11 '11 at 23:29
  • This turned out to be the issue: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3431361/git-for-windows-the-program-cant-start-because-libiconv2-dll-is-missing – dreftymac May 11 '11 at 23:45

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you need to be in a working tree of a repository. Or, some git commands allow --git-dir parameter to indicate where the repository is. The current directory that git.exe is running in is probably not a repository.

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If it is in PATH:

`git subcommand`

should work in ruby

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It turned out to be a missing file, see this post for the issue:

Git for Windows - The Program can't start because libiconv2.dll is missing

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