Laravel 10 Facades\Process does not recognize command due to missing system path

Question

I'm writing a middleware in Laravel 10 to grab the git version of my app. I'm developing on Windows 11 using VSCode. The code I'm using is as follows:

<?php

namespace App\Http\Middleware;

use Closure;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Process;
use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response;

class AppVersion
{
    /**
     * Handle an incoming request.
     *
     * @param  \Closure(\Illuminate\Http\Request): (\Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Response)  $next
     */
    public function handle(Request $request, Closure $next): Response
    {   
        $label = "V";
        $version = "0.1.0";

        // Get version string from git
        $hash = Process::run('git log --pretty="%h" -n1 HEAD')->output();
        $date = Process::run('git log -n1 --pretty=%ci HEAD')->output();

        $version_string = "test";
        config(['app.version' => $version_string]);

        return $next($request);
    }
}

However, in the ->errorOutput() I get the message:

'git' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

The Process::run is working with basic commands like DIR and git is installed on my system and callable in a terminal, i.e. the PATH is set to the git executable. Thus, I was suspecting that Process::run is not using my system PATH variable to find the command. To check this, I did run

dd(Process::run("path")->output());

and received the output:

"PATH=(null)"

According my understanding, the system path should be used to find commands, but it is not. What am I missing here? Do I have to manually add %PATH% somewhere in Laravel?

Answer 1

I found a workaround. Since the PATH is not included in the search path, I added the full path to git. It's not the nicest solution and I would be happy to learn if there is a better way to do this.

Here is how I do it:

        $git_commands = [
            "\"C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git\"",
            "/bin/git",
            "/var/packages/Git/target/bin/git"
        ];
        
        foreach($git_commands as $git_command) {
            // Get version string from git
            if(shell_exec("$git_command -v") !== null) {
                $hash = Process::path(base_path())->run("$git_command log -n1 --pretty=%h  HEAD")->output();
                $date = Process::path(base_path())->run("$git_command log -n1 --pretty=%ci HEAD")->output();
                break;
            }
        }