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glenn_mcalliste's avatar
14 years ago

CC 7.0 Beta - Git Extensions (msysgit) not recognized by client tools

We've standardized on using Git Extentions (http://code.google.com/p/gitextensions/) for our Windows environment, which uses MSysGit as the base Git tooling.  When I tried using the client tool to set up a test review, I let it autodetect my SCM.  That failed, so I told it flat out that I was using Git.  When I clicked 'Validate', I get the following error in the 'Configuration' text box:



Error: Did not understand git --version



When I run 'git --version' from the command line, I get the following:



git version 1.7.7.msysgit.1



Given that MSysGit is the Windows version of Git that you get directed to from git-scm.com I'm surprised this doesn't work out of the box.



Any advice?
  • Use the short path to git.exe. This should either be "C:\Progra~1\Git\bin\git.exe" or "C:\Progra~2\Git\bin\git.exe" depending on whether you are running 64bit Windows or not.