gettext-devel package dependency on git?

[Brian Inglis]

On 2025-07-26 07:45, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 21/07/2025 22:27, Matthew Sheets via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>> In troubleshooting issues using Cygwin within GitHub runners, one specific 
>> problem scenario identified is when the Cygwin "git" package is installed.  
>> When that happens, Cygwin's Git installation ends up being executed instead of 
>> GitHub's installation of Git, which obviously doesn't have the same setup, 
>> configuration, etc. as GitHub's own internal install of Git.
>>
>> Usually, these issues can be avoided by simply not including the "git" package 
>> among the list of packages to be installed along with Cygwin [1], but it 
>> appears there are certain cases where Cygwin's "git" package is being pulled 
>> in as a dependency by other Cygwin packages.

> Yeah, I've come across this as well.
> 
> Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a way for a simple action like ours to 
> register a post-run step to unwind the changes it makes to the path.
> 
> The only general work around I found was to add an explicit step at the end to 
> do 'rm /usr/bin/git' to avoid it being in PATH.
> 
> (Obviously you can also ask the action to not modify PATH, but this makes 
> everything else more awkward)
> 
> Please let us know if you find a better solution!
In packages where cygport uses `inherit git` cygclass/GIT_{URI,BRANCH,TAG,REV} 
sources, cygport assumes Cygwin git is available as BUILD_REQUIRES, as any other 
Windows runner git may misinterpret args.

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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