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[win-bootstrap] Remove obsolete PATH manipulation for direct Git

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depot_tools/bootstrap/bootstrap.py handles PATH lookup for
direct Git installations already. These instructions are not
required.

Bug: 360206460
Change-Id: Ib802ad4f48ccd71baf84c705ddbb677a138823fb
Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/6087517
Reviewed-by: Josip Sokcevic <sokcevic@chromium.org>
Auto-Submit: Anne Redulla <aredulla@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Rachael Newitt <renewitt@google.com>
Commit-Queue: Rachael Newitt <renewitt@google.com>
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/main@{#1395106}
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Anne Redulla
2024-12-11 14:25:04 -08:00
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docs/windows_build_instructions.md

@ -92,10 +92,6 @@ Note: if you are a Google employee, see [go/building-chrome-win#install-git](htt
Note: this section is about updating a direct installation of `git` because
`depot_tools` will soon stop bundling `git`.
If you have already set up `depot_tools` and would like to update an existing
directly-installed `git`, you must first
[modify your PATH](#modify-path-for-git) to prefer the non-`depot_tools` `git`.
Updating to the latest version of `git` will depend on which version you
currently have installed. First, check your `git` version. From a cmd.exe shell,
run:
@ -144,22 +140,6 @@ Python. Note that environment variable names are case insensitive).
Note: If you can only modify your user-level PATH and the system PATH has a
Python in it, you will be out of luck.
***
### Modify PATH for git
**Optional:** You can modify your PATH to prefer using an independently installed
`git` over the version currently bundled with `depot_tools`. If you are happy to
keep using the bundled `git` within `depot_tools` until it is removed, you can
skip this step.
* Assuming you installed Git at `C:\Program Files\Git`, edit your system or
user-level PATH in the same way when `C:\src\depot_tools` was added.
Modify the Path variable by adding the following *before*
`C:\src\depot_tools`:
* `C:\Program Files\Git\cmd`
* `C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin`
* `C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin`
***
Also, add a DEPOT_TOOLS_WIN_TOOLCHAIN environment variable in the same way, and
set it to 0. This tells depot_tools to use your locally installed version of
Visual Studio (by default, depot_tools will try to use a google-internal