Tuesday 16 April 2013

Using Cygwin git on Qt Creator

I am using the Qt Creator 2.0.1 (32 bit) at the moment. I have Cygwin installed on my Windows 7 already. I was inclined to use Cygwin's Git command instead of MSysGit (Just a personal preference at this time). That was relatively easy. I prefer configuring the PATH variable on an application specific basis instead of system-wide settings. I like to keep the system PATH variable as clean as I can. With Qt Creator, set the environment variable as shown below:

 

The Git commands are then available from the Menu - Tools > Git