Windows: Install ssh and other bundled programs to Git/cmd, instead of Git/bin, since the latter is not in the default msysgit PATH.

Build/BundledPrograms.hs

@@ -31,17 +31,15 @@ bundledPrograms = catMaybes
 	, Just "cp"
 #ifndef mingw32_HOST_OS
 	-- using xargs on windows led to problems, so it's not used there
-	-- (and msysgit includes a copy anyway)
 	, Just "xargs"
 #endif
 	, Just "rsync"
 #ifndef darwin_HOST_OS
-#ifndef mingw32_HOST_OS
 	-- OS X has ssh installed by default.
 	-- Linux probably has ssh, but not guaranteed.
-	-- On Windows, msysgit provides ssh, but not ssh-keygen.
+	-- On Windows, msysgit provides ssh, but not in PATH, 
+	-- so we ship our own.
 	, Just "ssh"
-#endif
 	, Just "ssh-keygen"
 #endif
 #ifndef mingw32_HOST_OS

Build/NullSoftInstaller.hs

@@ -133,12 +133,9 @@ makeInstaller gitannex license extrabins launchers = nsis $ do
 		, IconIndex 2
 		, Description "git-annex autostart"
 		]
-	section "bins" [] $ do
-		setOutPath "$INSTDIR\\bin"
-		mapM_ addfile extrabins
 	section "cmd" [] $ do
 		setOutPath "$INSTDIR\\cmd"
-		addfile gitannex
+		mapM_ addfile (gitannex:extrabins)
 	section "meta" [] $ do
 		setOutPath "$INSTDIR"
 		addfile license
@@ -147,8 +144,7 @@ makeInstaller gitannex license extrabins launchers = nsis $ do
 	uninstall $ do
 		delete [RebootOK] $ startMenuItem
 		delete [RebootOK] $ autoStartItem
-		removefilesFrom "$INSTDIR/bin" extrabins
-		removefilesFrom "$INSTDIR/cmd" [gitannex]
+		removefilesFrom "$INSTDIR/cmd" (gitannex:extrabins)
 		removefilesFrom "$INSTDIR" $
 			launchers ++
 			[ license

debian/changelog

@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ git-annex (5.20141126) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
   * Don't show "(gpg)" when decrypting the remote encryption cipher,
     since this could be taken to read that's the only time git-annex
     runs gpg, which is not the case.
-  * Windows: ssh is no longer included in the git-annex bundle,
-    since msysgit includes it.
+  * Windows: Install ssh and other bundled programs to Git/cmd,
+    instead of Git/bin, since the latter is not in the default msysgit PATH.
 
  -- Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>  Mon, 10 Nov 2014 15:31:55 -0400
 

doc/bugs/Internal_server_error_while_adding_remote_server_on_Windows.mdwn

@@ -27,3 +27,7 @@ recv: failed (No error)
 
 # End of transcript or log.
 """]]
+
+> [[fixed|done]]; git-annex's ssh is now installed to Git/cmd, 
+> so it will be in the PATH as long as the instructions are followed to let
+> msysgit add git to the PATH. --[[Joey]]