Command-line Git on Windows

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I have installed msysGit 1 7 10 on my Windows 7 machine  What I need to know is if I can still use Git from command line   When I try the git command in the command line right now I see       git  is not recognized as an internal or external command  operable program or batch file    Is there any way I can enable the Git command line

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These instructions worked for a Windows 8 with a msysgit TortoiseGit installation  but should be applicable for other types of git installations on Windows    Go to Control Panel System and Security System   Click on Advanced System Settings on the left which opens System Properties   Click on the Advanced Tab Click on the Environment Variables button at the bottom of the dialog box   Edit the System Variable called PATH   Append these two paths to the list of existing paths already present in the system variable  The tricky part was two paths were required  These paths may vary for your PC   C  msysgit bin  C  msysgit mingw bin  Close the CMD prompt window if it is open already  CMD needs to restart to get the updated Path variable  Try typing git in the command line  you should see a list of the git commands scroll down the screen

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As  birryree said  add msysgit s binary to your PATH  or use Git Bash  installed with msysgit as far as I remember  which is better than Windows  console and similar to the Unix one

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For me  I m using Windows 10   andrew-marshall s instructions worked  Thanks   except that git exe was within a cmd directory within PortableGit     not bin  so I had to put  cmd on the end of the path I added to PATH  Thought I would post this here in case anyone else hits the same issue  You can tell it works once git in a new Command Prompt window returns command usage info and not an error

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You can install chocolatey  It s like apt-get in Linux  you can install using the command line  Run Command Prompt as Administrator and type choco install git and you ll be able to install git devoted to the command line

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In windows 8 1  setting the PATH Environment Variable to Git s bin directory didn t work for me  Instead  I had to use the cmd directory C  Program Files  x86  Git cmd   Credit to  VonC in this question

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In the latest version  v2 19 for Windows when I m writing   if you choose the option  Use git in Windows command prompt   or sth similar  please read the options carefully when you install git   you should be able to use git commands in windows command prompt or windows powershell without any additional setting  Just remember to restart the command line tool after you install git

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I had the same issue and resolved it by adding the  bin directory location to the PATH Environment Variable    Search for the file location where Git was installed  mine is C  Users  My UserName  AppData Local GitHub  It may also be C  Program Files  x86  Git Once you have the location of Git you should see a  bin sub-folder  It may be in a PortableGit folder  mine is PortableGit 015aa71ef18c047ce8509ffb2f9e4bb0e3e73f13   Copy this path  Go to Control Panel   System   System Protection   Advanced   Environment Variables Choose PATH  click edit and paste the bin path there  If there are already any values in your PATH paste your Git path at the end separated with a semi-colon    Now you can access Git command from CMD

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as of now  with win 1909 and using Git-2 24 0 2-64-bit installer the process is very friendly towards user configuration  Seems like the earlier problems may now be catered for

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If you have installed GitHubDesktop in Windows 10  then press Ctrl        or in the menu go to Repository Open in command prompt   In case git is not installed in your machine  you should get a prompt to install git  I came to know from this that GitHubDesktop and git are different applications   Install git  close your command prompt and open it again    You can test your installation by typing in git at the command prompt

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