"git cl" has started failing on Windows

[DanTup]

Today I'm unable to run git cl, it fails with a printed path that looks like backslashes are being ignored/treated as escapes somewhere:

PS D:\Dev\Google\dart-sdk\sdk> git cl
/bin/bash: D:DevGoogledepot_tools\git-cl: No such file or directory

I don't know if this has something to do with the unbundling of Git from depot_tools, but I do have a working git (which is presumably trying to invoke git-cl from git):

PS D:\Dev\Google\dart-sdk\sdk> git --version
git version 2.45.1.windows.1

I can't find any issue tracker for depot_tools so I don't know if this is a good place to report this, but I'm hopeful if not someone can point me in the right direction.

I tried adding print/echos to the top of git-cl and git_cl.py but neither of them show up, so at this point I'm not even sure if this is a depot_tools issue - perhaps Git is failing to invoke git-cl. I don't know if there was some difference with the bundled version of Git versus the version I have (my version is bundled with GitHub Desktop).

(@athomas do you know anything about how this works and how I might debug further?)

[dart-github-bot]

Summary: git cl command fails on Windows, showing a path error where backslashes seem misinterpreted. The user suspects an issue with the unbundled Git in depot_tools, but isn't sure where to debug.

[DanTup]

I don't know if this has something to do with the unbundling of Git from depot_tools

I suspect it relates to this:

https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/tools/depot_tools/+/6068030

This CL makes searching for an existing system installation of Git
the default behavior.

If a direct Git installation is not found, a warning will be
logged and the bundled Git for Windows will be used instead.

And that makes me think that maybe the issue here is a difference between my version of Git and the bundled version, but since I'm not very familiar with the mechanism by which "git cl" invokes "git-cl", I'm not sure how to debug (I'm not sure why "bash" is showing up in my message.. I thought all the tools would be native and there would be no bash here).

Edit:

Reverting https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/tools/depot_tools/+/6068030 to remove --use-system-git did not work around the issue, I still see the same.

[DanTup]

Seems like this is an issue with the GitHub Desktop version of Git, because installing from git-scm.com and putting that first on PATH has solved this issue.

So probably it was only me, who was trying to avoid installing Git when I already had a bundled version 😄

Sorry for the noise!