From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 20:52:43 GMT
Subject: Re: getting fatal error trying to open git gui
Message-ID: <20180316205243.GB151588@aiede.svl.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CY4PR02MB2262A567EE2D2A54316BFE3FFFD70@CY4PR02MB2262.namprd02.prod.outlook.com>

Briggs, John wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder wrote:
>> Briggs, John wrote:

>>> 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