Silent install of PortableGit

[FlowMatric]

Hi - I am curious about your experiences installing the portable version of git silently. In my case, no matter what arguments I am passing to the installer, it always opens a dialog asking for the installation directory.

I am working with PortableGit-2.45.2-64-bit.7z.exe and tried the following arguments:

• /VERYSILENT /NORESTART /NOCANCEL /SP- /CLOSEAPPLICATIONS /RESTARTAPPLICATIONS /COMPONENTS="gitlfs,ext\reg\shellhere,assoc,assoc_sh"
• /SILENT /INSTALLDIR="C:\tmp\asdf" /NORESTART /NOCANCEL /SP- /CLOSEAPPLICATIONS /RESTARTAPPLICATIONS /COMPONENTS="gitlfs,ext\reg\shellhere,assoc,assoc_sh"
• and many subsets of the arguments above...

Your ideas and any help is much appreciated!

[dscho]

These arguments work with the installer, but not with Portable Git. The latter is a completely different thing: not an InnoSetup-based installer, but instead a self-extracting 7-Zip archive with very limited installer options. Basically, Portable Git allows you to specify where to extract it to, and that's it. All other configurations need to be done manually (usually by calling git config --system ...).

[EDIT]: So if you want a silent installation, just use 7-Zip directly to extract the archive (use it as if it did not have the extension .7z.exe but instead .7z).

[rimrul]

no matter what arguments I am passing to the installer, it always opens a dialog asking for the installation directory.

You should be able to skip that dialog with the -y option. In addition you should be able to specify the installation directory with the -o option. There might be some graphical elements remaining, but it should work for an unattended install.

[dscho]

Indeed. And those are the only two supported options, and they are so far undocumented. PRs welcome!