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vkaul11
vkaul11

Reputation: 4214

how do find whether I am using 32 bit or 64 bit version of Git

I want to find out what version of Git I am running on windows- 32 bit or 64 bit. Any idea how to find that out? I am pasting whatever information I have.

$ git version

git version 1.7.10.msysgit.1

vkaul@NBVK ~
$ git config -l

core.symlinks=false
core.autocrlf=true
color.diff=auto
color.status=auto
color.branch=auto
color.interactive=true
pack.packsizelimit=2g
help.format=html
http.sslcainfo=/bin/curl-ca-bundle.crt
sendemail.smtpserver=/bin/msmtp.exe
diff.astextplain.textconv=astextplain
rebase.autosquash=true
gui.recentrepo=C:/OCRImages_GIT
[email protected]
user.name=Vivek Kaul
merge.tool=kdiff3
core.autocrlf=true
core.editor="C:/Program Files (x86)/GitExtensions/GitExtensions.exe" fileeditor
mergetool.kdiff3.path=C:/Program Files (x86)/KDiff3/kdiff3.exe
diff.guitool=kdiff3
difftool.kdiff3.path=C:/Program Files (x86)/KDiff3/kdiff3.exe
http.postbuffer=2000000000
push.default=matching
pack.windowmemory=512m
pack.packsizelimit=2g

Upvotes: 13

Views: 11843

Answers (6)

Scott Centoni
Scott Centoni

Reputation: 1133

This should give you the information you're looking for on any platform:

C:\>git --version --build-options
git version 2.21.0.windows.1
cpu: x86_64
built from commit: 2481c4cbe949856f270a3ee80c802f5dd89381aa
sizeof-long: 4
sizeof-size_t: 8

Upvotes: 10

Rain
Rain

Reputation: 3936

This is how I did it using Notepad++

  1. Open git-bash.exe (or git-cmd.exe) in Notepad++
  2. Go to Search>Find or just press CTRL+F
  3. Type in PE and hit find next
  4. Now look for the first printable character after PE

If it's d then your Git is 64 bit

If it's L then your Git is 32 bit

Upvotes: 1

SherylHohman
SherylHohman

Reputation: 17960

On Git Bash for Windows, you can type
where git

C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin\git.exe
C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git.exe

If it's installed in Program Files then you're running 64-bit.
If it's installed in Program Files (x86) then you're running 32-bit.

Upvotes: 0

vido.ardes
vido.ardes

Reputation: 81

I appreciate this is old, but I got frustrated trying to find the answer and then worked it out myself. It's very very simple if you use the default install location.

If your install is in C:\Program Files\Git, it's 64-bit. If it's in C:\Program Files (x86)\Git it's 32-bit.

Upvotes: 7

Paul R
Paul R

Reputation: 213120

Use file, e.g.

$ file `which git`
/usr/local/bin/git: Mach-O 64-bit executable x86_64

Upvotes: 2

Adam
Adam

Reputation: 36733

Command 

file $( which git )

Output 

/usr/bin/git: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.24, BuildID[sha1]=0x4faadbc9c19a44ab71d1714a4e3d69e177e42a76, stripped

Upvotes: 6

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