"async-handle-result: no such file or directory, git" ignoring exec-path?

[dmich2]

Description

Just installed spacemacs. I ran into issue #4367 so I put
(add-to-list 'exec-path "C:/Program Files (x86)/Git/bin")
in my (defun dotspacemacs/user-init () as I didn't want to put git in my PATH.

I now get the following error:
error in process sentinel: async-handle-result: Searching for program: no such file or directory, git error in process sentinel: Searching for program: no such file or directory, git

Is this related to issue #3390 ?

brabalan commented on Oct 15, 2015
@justbur I did not know of async till yesterday, and it seems we have to worry about it anyway (as in: any use of a variable defined outside of the async should be injected).

as in maybe the value of exec-path has to also be "injected"?

System Info

• OS: windows-nt
• Emacs: 24.5.1
• Spacemacs: 0.105.4
• Spacemacs branch: master (rev. da94a25)
• Distribution: spacemacs
• Layers:

(emacs-lisp)

[luxbock]

I'm having this same issue. I'm on Windows as well. I have tried adding git to my Path as well which didn't work either.

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[sungam94]

Problem still exists under windows if custom git path is added to exec-path.

[rosso-]

Same problem here on Freebsd 13. Using magit from emacs works fine, but from emacsclient - same issue. Maybe this irrelevant, but maybe not

[lebensterben]

@rosso-
(executable-find "git") ?