Intellij Terminal not functional due to corrupted PATH

[hohwille]

Expected behavior

As a devonfw-ide user, I want to be able to run Intellij via devon command and use the Terminal inside Intellij so that I do not need to leave my IDE for terminal tasks.

Actual behavior

The terminal is broken if Intellij is launched via devonfw-ide:

Steps to reproduce (bug) / Use Case of feature request (enhancement)

1. setup project: devon ide create legacy-project -
2. cd legacy-project
3. devon intellij

Related/Dependent Issues

Comments/Hints:

I retested the same with IDEasy and there it works so definitely a bug in devonfw-ide and not in Intellij.

Affected version:

• Windows
• 2024.11.002

[hohwille]

I did echo $PATH inside the Terminal in Intellij and got a very different result compared to doing the same in a git-bash launched from the same project.
I could figure out that the PATH variable inside Intellij Terminal is having proper entries managed from devonfw-ide in MINGW-syntax what is correct for git-bash (so entries separated with : and starting with things like /c/...) but at the end there is the original PATH in Windows syntax (with entries separated by ; and starting with things like C:\). Since all that is mixed up in the same value of the PATH variable, this is definitely messed up and incorrect.
Since entries like /c/Program Files/Git/usr/bin are missing in PATH but are instead in a corrupted entry at the end C:\...;C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin;... this explains the effect of this bug.
Still the question is why the PATH was broken this way.

[hohwille]

We finally found a workaround for this problem in case you are affected and suffering with this problem:
devonfw/IDEasy#764