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Add setup checks for the availability of 'which' and 'diff' binaries

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Add setup checks for the availability of 'which' and 'diff' binaries

Summary:
Spent an hour or two helping a user figure this out. Make sure I never do that again.

If the webserver is configured with an empty or bogus PATH, binaries like 'which' and 'diff' (and 'git', and 'svn', etc.) may not be available. In most cases, this is fine, because we get an error like "sh: whatever-command not found", which is obvious to diagnose.

In the case of 'diff', we don't get this, because 'diff' is expected to exit with a nonzero code for differing files -- so we interpret the "sh: whatever-command not found" as "files differ" and then try to parse the empty output.

Explicitly check for 'which' (on Windows, 'where') and 'diff' during setup (I plan to refine the behavior around 'git', 'svn' and 'hg' at some point, but this is less pressing since the errors are trivial to support).

Test Plan: Faked failures on all modes, verified setup warnings look reasonable.

Reviewers: btrahan, chad

Reviewed By: btrahan

CC: aran

Differential Revision: https://secure.phabricator.com/D6008

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epriestleyAuthored on May 23 2013, 2:42 PM
themackabuPushed on Mar 25 2025, 8:07 PM
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rP40680e459f44: Add a basic multipage form
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