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Fails on import with custom exception #637

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@vidartf

On Windows, without git available on path, the following happens on import of GitPython:

[package stack]
    from git.exc import GitError
  File "C:\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\git\__init__.py", line 45, in <module>
    from git.repo import Repo               # @NoMove @IgnorePep8
  File "C:\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\git\repo\__init__.py", line 4, in <module>
    from .base import *
  File "C:\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\git\repo\base.py", line 31, in <module>
    from git.remote import Remote, add_progress, to_progress_instance
  File "C:\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\git\remote.py", line 190, in <module>
    class FetchInfo(object):
  File "C:\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\git\remote.py", line 219, in FetchInfo
    v = Git().version_info[:2]
  File "C:\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\git\cmd.py", line 461, in version_info
    return self._version_info
  File "C:\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\git\cmd.py", line 424, in __getattr__
    return LazyMixin.__getattr__(self, name)
  File "C:\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\gitdb\util.py", line 256, in __getattr__
    self._set_cache_(attr)
  File "C:\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\git\cmd.py", line 444, in _set_cache_
    version_numbers = self._call_process('version').split(' ')[2]
  File "C:\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\git\cmd.py", line 877, in _call_process
    return self.execute(call, **exec_kwargs)
  File "C:\Miniconda3\lib\site-packages\git\cmd.py", line 602, in execute
    raise GitCommandNotFound(command, err)
git.exc.GitCommandNotFound: Cmd('git') not found due to: FileNotFoundError('[WinError 2] The system cannot find the file specified')
  cmdline: git version

Since it fails while trying to import the exception type that it raises (GitError), the only way to catch the error is with a try: ... except Exception: block, which is needlessly wide. It would be nice if a better pattern was available for conditional use of the package.

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