Git Installing Git in PATH with GitHub client for Windows

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How do I install Git in my PATH when using the GitHub client for Windows   I m running into errors because apparently Git is not installed in PATH  For example  using Atom  trying to install the Linter plugin gives this error   npm ERR  not found  git npm ERR   npm ERR  Failed using git  npm ERR  This is most likely not a problem with npm itself  npm ERR  Please check if you have git installed and in your PATH    Does GitHub for Windows install Git when it installs   It must  otherwise how does it use Git   I don t want to double-install it    so how do I just add the Git that s already there to PATH

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To fix a problem  in my case  I checked Git folder under c  program files Git  I didn t find git exe  so delete the Git folder and install it again  Declare them in the environment variables as shown above  the problem will be solved

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Git   s executable is actually located in  C  Users  lt user gt  AppData Local GitHub PortableGit  lt guid gt  bin git exe  Now that we have located the executable all we have to do is add it to our PATH    Right-Click on My Computer Click Advanced System Settings Click Environment Variables Then under System Variables look for the path variable and click edit Add the path to git   s bin and cmd at the end of the string like this     C  Users  lt user gt  AppData Local GitHub PortableGit  lt guid gt  bin C  Users  lt user gt  AppData Local GitHub PortableGit  lt guid gt  cmd

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I would like to add one more thing to what the other answers have said  It is not compulsory that path will be   C  Users  lt user gt  AppData Local GitHub PortableGit  lt guid gt  bin git exe  In my computer I did not found Git there    BUT git and cmd are located in   git exe   C  Program Files Git bin git exe   cmd  C  Program Files Git cmd   To add into PATH    Right-Click on My Computer Click on Advanced System Settings Click on Environment Variables Then  under System Variables  look for the path variable and click edit Add the path to git   s bin and cmd at the end of the string like this    C  Program Files Git bin git exe C  Program Files Git cmd   OR   C  Users  lt user gt  AppData Local GitHub PortableGit  lt guid gt  bin C  Users  lt user gt  AppData Local GitHub PortableGit  lt guid gt  cmd  To verify  restart cmd and type git --version in cmd

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Thanks everyone who have answered I have seen all answers and to try to make it easy for everyone  Step 1  Type edit environment and select the option shown    Step 2  Select Path and click on edit    Step 3  In the end add the below statement you can avoid the first   if its already there    C  Program Files Git bin git exe C  Program Files Git cmd     Step 4 - Click on ok     Step 5    - One of the important step which is highlighted by one of the users  thanks to him  Please    CLOSE command prompt and REOPEN then try to write git        Close command prompt and restart before trying the below command       Here is the magic

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GitHub for Windows does indeed install its own version of Git  but it doesn t add it to the PATH variable  which is easy enough to do  Here s instructions on how to do it    Get the Git URL  We need to get the url of the Git  cmd directory your computer  Git is located here    C  Users  lt user gt  AppData Local GitHub PortableGit  lt guid gt  cmd git exe   So on your computer  replace  lt user gt  with your user and find out what the  lt guid gt  is for your computer   The guid may change each time GitHub updates PortableGit  but they re working on a solution to that     Copy it and paste it into a command prompt  right-click   paste to paste in the terminal  to verify that it works  You should see the Git help response that lists common Git commands  If you see The system cannot find the path specified  Then the URL isn   t right  Once you have it right  create the link to the directory using this format     C  Users  lt user gt  AppData Local GitHub PortableGit  lt guid gt  cmd    Note   cmd at the end  not  cmd git exe anymore    On my system  it   s this  yours will be different    C  Users brenton AppData Local GitHub PortableGit 7eaa494e16ae7b397b2422033as45d8ff6ac2010 cmd  Edit the PATH Variable  Navigate to the Environmental Variables Editor  instructions  and find the Path variable in the    System Variables    section  Click Edit    and paste the URL of Git to the end of that string  Save  It might be easier to pull this into Notepad to do the edit  just make sure you put one semicolon before you paste in the URL  If it doesn t work it   s probably because this path got messed up either with a space in there somewhere  should be no spaces around the semicolon  or a semicolon at the end  semicolons should only separate URLs  no semicolon at beginning or end of string      If it worked  you should be able to close  amp  reopen a terminal and type git and it will give you that same git help file  Then installing the Linter should work   Atom   File   Settings   Packages   Linter

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I installed GitHubDesktop on Windows 10 and git exe is located there  C  Users john AppData Local GitHubDesktop app-0 7 2 resources app git cmd git exe

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GitHub for Windows is now GitHub desktop   If you have GitHub for Windows  before version 1 1   your path should be   C  Users  lt user gt  AppData Local GitHub PortableGit  lt guid gt  cmd  If you have GitHub Desktop  from version 1 1   your path should be   C  Users  lt user gt  AppData Local GitHubDesktop app- lt version gt  resources app git cmd  After confirming and copying your path  do the following    Right click on My Computer or This PC Click on Properties Click on Advanced system settings Click on Environment Variables under the Advanced tab Add your path with   before it in the variable Path Press Ok Use a new terminal

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If you are using vscode s terminal then it might not work even if you do the environment variable thing  test by typing  git  Restart vscode  it should work

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To get this to work I had to combine many of the above answers  to anyone who this might help here is my much simpler process    If you have Windows 10 just start typing  edit environmental     and it ll pop up right away  Click path and Edit    then paste the  C  Program Files Git bin git exe C  Program Files Git cmd  at the end of the path already there  don t forget the   to separate your new github path from the current path   You do not need the guid but if you want to know how to find it open bash  type git --man-path

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If you use SmartGit on Windows  the executable might be here   c  Program Files  x86  SmartGit git bin git exe

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Updated for the Github Desktop  Search up  Edit the system environment variables  on windows search      Click environmental variable on the bottom right corner     Find path under system variables and click edit on it     Click new to add a new path     add this path  C  Users yourUserName AppData Local GitHubDesktop bin github exe    To make sure everything is working fine  open cmd  and type github exe

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Add   C  Program Files Git bin git exe C  Program Files Git cmd C  Windows System32    to your PATH variable   Do not create new variable for git but add them as I did one after another separating them by    It works for me

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Having searched around several posts   On Windows 10 having downloaded and installed Github for Windows 2 10 2 I found the git exe in  C  Users  lt user gt  AppData Local Programs Git bin   and the git-cmd exe in  C  Users  lt user gt  AppData Local Programs Git   Please note the change to Programs folder within Local from the above posts

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