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PositiveGuy
PositiveGuy

Reputation: 47733

Could not find Git in your PATH environment variable - Windows

I'm running windows 8 and ran the setup for the Git credential helper found here: http://blob.andrewnurse.net/gitcredentialwinstore/git-credential-winstore.exe

When it runs, in the console window that pops up, I get "Could not find Git in your PATH environment variable. You can specify the exact path to git by running git-credential-winstore -i C:\Path\To\Git.exe"

I guess I do not know enough about windows here to understand what I should do here. Ok WHERE do I type this git-credential-winstore -i C:\Path\To\Git.exe, in the GitBash console?

The path to my Git.exe appears to be C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\cmd

Also note that when I installed Git from http://git-scm.com/downloads for windows, I chose the option "Use Git Bash Only" as I'm not really familiar with any of this stuff period.

UPDATE - more details

I am referencing this blog post: http://www.jeremymorgan.com/tutorials/how-to-install-octopress-windows/

So the problem is even after I tried the command "Yari 1.9.3" in the command prompt for windows, or in powershell, neither worked:

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Upvotes: 4

Views: 23722

Answers (5)

Hussein Samir
Hussein Samir

Reputation: 1

if you use win7 you should update your path, right click on my computer, advanced system settings, environment variables, in below choose path, and put (;) semicolon, then add bin folder in flutter sdk direction, it will be run

Upvotes: 0

Dynamic Remo
Dynamic Remo

Reputation: 531

Because the git you have installed is not in the Program Files or Program Files(x86).

It have been installed as a localized version for the particular user and thus your Environment Variable path should be like this. C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\bin

Cheers ;)

Upvotes: 0

Kim Ki Won
Kim Ki Won

Reputation: 1855

You can only install path under uninstall registry key.
some snippet batch script.

@ECHO OFF

SET __PA=

IF /i NOT "%PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%"=="x86" SET __PA=\Wow6432Node
FOR /F "tokens=2*" %%F in ('REG QUERY HKLM\SOFTWARE%__PA%\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\Git_is1 /v InstallLocation') DO SET gitPath=%%G

ECHO %gitPath%

Upvotes: 0

Craicerjack
Craicerjack

Reputation: 6332

you cd into your download directory or wherever you saved git-credential-winstore.exe to:

C:\Users\user\Downloads>

then run 

 git-credential-winstore -i "C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\git.exe"

your windows command line will look like this:

C:\Users\user\Downloads>git-credential-winstore -i "C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\git.exe"

note the quote marks.

This worked for me.

Upvotes: 10

Zombo
Zombo

Reputation: 1

You run commands like this from a shell

With Windows the defacto shell is cmd.exe, also known as Command Prompt.

This "program" can typically be found at C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe

Your instructions likely omit this information because cmd.exe has been around for 20 years.

Upvotes: 0

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