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markthegrea
markthegrea

Reputation: 3841

How do I upgrade GIT for Intellij?

Title says it all. Is there some widget that does this for me or is a just a jar replace. If the later, how do I find the jars?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 6178

Answers (3)

markthegrea
markthegrea

Reputation: 3841

So I just tried a normal GIT upgrade starting here:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucketserver/installing-and-upgrading-git-776640906.html

I downloaded the installer and ran it. I am on Windows 10 so I just took the defaults (except for the text editor).

Intellij picked it up with no problems. Someone else on my team got an error about not having admin rights. It is probably best to run the installer with admin rights.

The skinny I guess is: Intellij does not "manage" GIT. It just uses the one installed on your system.

Upvotes: 0

Tim Biegeleisen
Tim Biegeleisen

Reputation: 520878

When I use the Git plugin with IntelliJ, I just point it to the actual running version of Git which I have on my machine. So if you want to use an upgraded version of Git, then you should download and install it first. After doing that, if you visit Project Settings from the drop down menu (SHIFT + CTRL + ALT + S on Windows machines), you can navigate to the settings for version control. Here is screen capture from my MacBook Air:

screen capture

Point IntelliJ to the local location of the upgraded version of Git, and the plugin should work.

Upvotes: 2

amer
amer

Reputation: 1672

Maybe add a local path to Git: My Intellij is 2019

Settings -> Version Control -> Git -> Path to Git executable.

Upvotes: 0

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