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Ben G
Ben G

Reputation: 26761

Using gitk on msysgit

I'm trying to use the gitk on mysysgit. I'm not using Cygwin or MinGW to run mysysgit, just a straight up DOS command prompt on Windows.

The gitk file is in the bin/ folder, but it's not an executable, so when I type gitk I get:

'gitk' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Upvotes: 8

Views: 1004

Answers (2)

DDM
DDM

Reputation: 1129

If you've installed Git for windows and you're running cmder on windows and unable to launch gitk, then:

  • Press superkey, search System Environmental Varibales. You shall see Edit system environmental variables there.
  • Edit the PATH (the caps one on top)
  • Add C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\cmd (or whatever the right path be) at the end, and terminate the line with a semicolon
  • relaunch cmder
  • instead of gitk, write now gitk.cmd

Done.

Note: The above instruction may stand valid for command line tools other than mingw or cygwin or bash like shells

Upvotes: 1

manojlds
manojlds

Reputation: 301117

Use gitk.cmd from the cmd/ folder

Upvotes: 12

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