EGit couldn't detect the installation path "gitPrefix" of native Git

Question

How to fix this problem?

Warning: EGit couldn't detect the installation path "gitPrefix" of native Git. Hence EGit can't respect system level Git settings which might be configured in ${gitPrefix}/etc/gitconfig under the native Git installation directory.

Answer 1

In my case installation of the latest Git version helped.

Downloaded latest version from https://git-scm.com/download/win and installed it to the same directory as Git was before. Started eclipse and error message from Error log disappeared. I have Cygwin64 installed.

Answer 2

As I suggested in "Egit installation path error", it can be linked to the absence of a Git installation (which EGit relies on for the system config path).

Install:

• Git as a portable msysgit if you are on Windows: PortableGit-1.8.4-preview20130916.7z (unzip it anywhere you want, and add the C:\path\to\PortableGit-1.8.4-preview20130916\bin to the PATH environment variable)

• Or Git using the latest Git Releases from a custom PPA (Personal Package Archive) if you are on Linux