Hey folks, what's the best way to make Git available during a process execution? There's a

GitBinary

, but I don't really know where to but that in a

Process

. (Terraform needs git available to download public modules)

Maybe just add (a Terraform backend specific?) ability to set

PATH

when running a Terraforn

Process

if the

--subprocess-environment-env

is not enough?

Yeah, that makes sense. We could have the default be to pass Git through. I think this would also be useful for people using provisioners

I will once again ring the bell for making

subprocess-environment

live up to its documentation and work on all Process invocations...

yes at least for module downloads

So there's probably prior art to look at there

I don't think the golang backend does, I think we ask people to

go mod download all

. I can't find any reference to Git in the golang backend anyhow

to clarify,

go

needs

git

only if pulling directly from a git repository (if the version is specified as a commit via the "psuedo-version" mechanism)

ah, that makes sense. It looks like for cgo, we forward the PATH envvar. doing that would work, and something like that is necessary for provisioners or providers that need other binaries, but it is a bit inelegant. Should we generalise the shell_command.tools? https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/reference-shell_command#codetoolscode