Visual Studio Code cannot detect installed git

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Visual Studio Code reports  It look like git is not installed on your system   when I try to switch to the git view  I know I have git installed and used by other git clients  I guess if I re-install git following Visual Studio Code s instruction   install it with Chocolatey or download it from git-scm com    it probably can fix the problem  but I don t want to mess up the existing git clients on my system  Is there a reliable way to configure Visual Studio Code so it can find existing git installation

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First check if Git  installed or not in your system  by typing the command in cmd  command prompt  In windows   where git   if you get an output like this     where git C  cmder vendor git-for-windows cmd git exe   Then Go to Settings  gt  Preferences  gt  Settings and put the bellow code   right part             If git enabled        git enabled   true          Path to the git executable      git path    C   cmder  vendor  git-for-windows  cmd  git exe       If you don t have Git installed   Install git from here https   git-scm com       Just add double slash      just like the above code

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In Visual Studio Code open  user settings   ctrl   p and type  gt sett press enter  This will open default settings on left side and User settings on right side   Just add path to git exe in user settings   git path    C   Users   WINDOWS USER   AppData  Local  Programs  Git  bin  git exe    Replace  WINDOWS USER  with your user name   Restart Visual Studio Code

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This can happen after upgrading macOS  Try running git from a terminal and see if the error message begins with       xcrun  error  invalid active developer path   Library Developer CommandLineTools        If so the fix is to run      xcode-select --install    from the terminal  see this answer for more details

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The only way I could get to work in my Windows 8 1 is the following  Add to system environment variables  not user variables    c  Users USERNAME AppData Local GitHub PortableGit YOURVERSION bin  c  Users USERNAME AppData Local GitHub PortableGit YOURVERSION libexec git-core  c  Users USERNAME AppData Local GitHub PortableGit YOURVERSION cmd   This fixed the  it looks like git is not installed on your system  error on my Visual Studio Code

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In my case GIT was installed on my WIndows 10 OS and there was an entry in PATH variable  But VS CODE 1 52 1 still unable to detect it from terminal window but it was available in CMD console  Problem was solved by switching terminal from PowerShell to CMD or Shell   VsCode restart

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Make sure git is enabled  File -- gt  Preferences -- gt  Git Enabled  as other have mentioned  Make sure Gits installed and in the PATH  with the correct location  by default  C  Program Files Git cmd  - PATH on system variables btw Change default terminal  Powershell can be a bit funny  I recommend Git BASH but cmd is fine  this can be done by selecting the terminal dropdown and selecting  set default shell  then creating a new terminal with the   button  Restarting VS Code  sometimes Reboot if that fails   Hope that helped  and last but not least  it s  git  not  Git   gat

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What worked for me was manually adding the path variable in my system  I followed the instructions from Method 3 in this post  https   appuals com fix-git-is-not-recognized-as-an-internal-or-external-command

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open   C  Users nassim AppData Roaming Code User settings json   comment any git line there              git-graph integratedTerminalShell    E   Apps  Git  bin  bash exe       git path              and add git exe to the OS path   Note for me  fixing this git error also fixed the npm error too    since they are both defined in the path  if one fail   the remaining will fail as well

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Three years later  I ran into the same issue  Setting the path in user settings  amp  PATH environment variable didn t help  I updated VSCode and that solved it

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Update 2020  Mac   Went through this  h     again after updating to Catalina  which requires an XCode update    And to clarify  while this post is about VS Code  this issue  is system wide  Your git install is affected hosed  You can try to run git in your terminal bash zsh or whatever it is now and it just won t   Same fix  just update XCode  start it up and agree to license  That s it     Old post  but just hit this on MAC OSXso hope this helps someone   Symptoms    You ve been using VS Code for some time and have no issues with Git You install XCode  for whatever reason - OS update  etc  After installing XCode  VS Code suddenly  can t find Git and asks you to either install or set the Path in settings    Quick fix   Run XCode  for the first time  after installing  and agree to license  That s it   How I stumbled upon this  fix    After going through numerous tips about checking git  e g  which git and git --version  the latter actually offered clues with this Terminal message      Agreeing to the Xcode iOS license requires admin privileges  please run    sudo xcodebuild -license    and then retry this command    As to why XCode would even wrap it s hands on git  WAT  Happy holidays and happy coding

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First install Git onto your desktop  then Add the encircled extension in vscode  as seen in the picture   That helped me fix the same issue you have

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I faced this problem on MacOS High Sierra 10 13 5 after upgrading Xcode  When I run git command  I received below message   Agreeing to the Xcode iOS license requires admin privileges  please run    sudo xcodebuild -license    and then retry this command   After running sudo xcodebuild -license command  below message appears   You have not agreed to the Xcode license agreements  You must agree to both license agreements below in order to use Xcode  Hit the Enter key to view the license agreements at   Applications Xcode app Contents Resources English lproj License rtf   Typing Enter key to open license agreements and typing space key to review details of it  until below message appears   By typing  agree  you are agreeing to the terms of the software license agreements  Type  print  to print them or anything else to cancel   agree  print  cancel   The final step is simply typing agree to sign with the license agreement   After typing git command  we can check that VSCode detected git again

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Follow this   1  File  gt  Preferences  gt  setting 2  In search type - gt  git path 3  Now scroll down a little  gt  you will see  quot Git path quot  section  4  Click  quot Edit in settings json quot   5  Now just paste this path there  quot C   Program Files  Git  mingw64  libexec  git-core  git exe quot    Restart VSCode and open new terminal in VSCode and try  quot git version quot   In case still problem exists   1  Inside terminal click on terminal options  1 Poweshell  2  Select default shell 3  Select bash  open new terminal and change terminal option to 2 Bash Again try  quot git version quot  - this should work

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Now you can configure Visual Studio Code  version 0 10 2  check for older versions  to use existing git installation   Just add the path to the git executable in your Visual Studio Code settings  File -  Preferences -  Settings  like this            Is git enabled      git enabled   true          Path to the git executable      git path    C   path  to  git exe          other settings

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I found that i had git  false in settings json  Changed it to true and works now

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If you have multiple environments  You could include Git Path in the VS Code Workspace Setting  For Windows  depending on your setting  you could hit Ctlr   P  search for  settings   Open setting json or File Preferences Settings   Navigate to Workspace Settings  Find  Path  and add paths to Git bin and cmd folders           Environments can have their own paths  I discovered this when I echoed my PC  PATH  on cmd  git bin and cmd path where available but when I was working on my project  echoed  PATH  did not have git and cmd folder  Adding them  as shown above solved the issue   Extra Notes   On cmd  you can echo   PATH   and see if git bin and cmd folders are included  If not  you could concatenate using SETX PATH on  e g  SETX PATH   PATH  Path to Git bin Path to Gt cmd     This will make git available on local root but not on some environments which comes with their own paths SETX  M PATH   PATH  Path to Git bin Path to Gt cmd   would have though    In case you have a long Path that is chopped off dues to Path length getting  Error  Truncated at X characters   message   you can increase the path length on regedit     On  Search Windows   search for  regedit   Right-click to open as Admin  Go to Computer HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SYSTEM CurrentControlSet Control FileSystem Right-click and modify  Change value data from 0 to 1   This will increase your path length  If it is already one  then I am not sure how to proceed from there        6   6

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I had this problem after upgrading to macOS Catalina  The issue is resolved as follows   Find git location from the terminal   whereis git 2  Add the location of git in settings file with your location  settings json  quot git path quot    quot  usr bin git quot   Depending on your platform  the user settings file  settings json  is located here  Windows  APPDATA  Code User settings json macOS  HOME Library Application Support Code User settings json Linux  HOME  config Code User settings json

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i have recently start visual studio code and have this issue and  just write the exact path of executable git solve the issue      here is the code          git path    C  Program Files Git bin git exe

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here s what worked for me  instead of using the visual code terminal to run your git commands  run the git commands from a cmd terminal at the path of your application

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For Linux based OS  I had such an issue due to a corrupted path but was able to temporarily fix the issue and my git was immediately restored  In case you re facing such path issue type the command below export PATH  quot  usr bin  bin  PATH quot

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I had this problem after upgrading to macOS Catalina  The issue is resolved as follows  1  Find git location from the terminal  which git  2  Add the location of git in settings file with your location  settings json  quot git path quot    quot  usr local bin git quot     Depending on your platform  the user settings file  settings json  is located here  Windows  APPDATA  Code User settings json macOS  HOME Library Application Support Code User settings json  Linux  HOME  config Code User settings json

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VSCode 1 50  Sept 2020  adds an interesting alternative with issue 85734   Support multiple values for the git path setting I use VSCode in three different places  my home computer  my work computer  and as a portable version I carry on a drive when I need to use a machine that doesn t have it  I use an extension to keep my settings synced up between editors  and the only issue I ve encountered so far is that the git path doesn t match between any of them   On my home machine I have it installed to C of course  work likes to be funny and install it on A  and for the one on my drive I have a relative path set so that no matter what letter my drive gets  that VSCode can always find git   I already attempted to use an array myself just to see if it d work   quot git path quot     quot C   Program Files  Git  bin  git exe quot    quot A   Git  bin  git exe quot    quot         Git  bin  git exe quot     But VSCode reads it as one entire value  What I d like is for it to recognize it as an array and then try each path in order until it finds Git or runs out of paths   This is addressed with PR 85954 and commit c334da1

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After an OSX update i had to run xcode-select --install for the gitlens to work

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Visual Studio Code simply looks in your PATH for git   Many UI clients ship with a  Portable Git  for simplicity  and do not add git to the path   If you add your existing git client to your PATH  so that it can find git exe   Visual Studio Code should enable Git source control management

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