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Re: getting fatal error trying to open git gui

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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Mar 16, 2018, 20:52 UTC
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Briggs, John wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>> Briggs, John wrote:
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>>> I just installed git for windows 10 and am getting "git-gui: fatal
>>> error" "Cannot parse Git version string.
>>>
>>> When I execute "git version" in the command prompt I get Git version
>>> 2.16.2.windows.1
>>>
>>> Everything else seems to be working. How can I get the gui to work?
>>
>> That's strange indeed.  Why is Git capitalized when you run "git version"?
>
> Got it figured out. Git gui must be ran as administrator.
Hm, that leaves me even more mystified.

Before v1.7.4-rc0~155^2~4 (git-gui: generic version trimming, 2010-10-07), git-gui was not able to handle "git version" output like "git version 2.16.2.windows.1", but since then, it should have been able to cope fine with it.

I wonder: do you have multiple versions of git gui installed?

Thanks, Jonathan

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