Windows, Emacs, Git Bash, and shell-command

Question

Windows 7. Emacs 24.3.1. Git 1.8.1.msysgit.1. I have the following in my equivalent .emacs file:

(if (equal system-type \'windows-nt)
    (progn (setq explicit-s         


        

Answer 1

Try setting both variables to point to the same executable and make sure the path is in exec-path:

(setq explicit-shell-file-name
      "C:/Program Files (x86)/Git/bin/bash.exe")
(setq shell-file-name explicit-shell-file-name)
(add-to-list 'exec-path "C:/Program Files (x86)/Git/bin")