On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 2:22 AM, Richard Riley <rileyrg@googlemail.com> wrote:
The reason is that if its not on the path it cant use the git
executable..

No, I got that part--but surely it could tell me that it recognized that the file was under Git version control, even if it knew that it couldn't actually *act* on the file?  Minor point; I got it working.

Best,
Laird