From: Erik Faye-Lund Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:41:23 GMT Subject: Re: Running git on Windows command line Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1A9EA7E081C3FE46A0F446FFB66D10EB939D37@FL01EXMB01.trad.tradestation.com> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:02 PM, John Dlugosz wrote: > >> The msysGit (the development environment for Git for Windows) >> installer does not modify the system-wide path, but the Git for >> Windows installer does. Perhaps you've previously been using msysGit >> instead of Git for Windows? >> >> -- >> Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund > > I've only installed "msysgit".  The item in the path, which I assume was added by the option to "Git from command prompt", with the other two choices being "Git bash only" and "git and included unix tools from command prompt".  I did notice that the exact wording, if not the choices meanings (I'm not sure), seemed to change some time within the last two years. > It sounds to me like you've installed indeed Git for Windows (which is the end-user product from the msysGit-project); the msysGit installers doesn't show a wizard with questions, it just installs a self-contained development environment. You can tell the packages apart by the name: * Git-something.exe and PortableGit-something.exe are installers for Git for Windows. * msysGit-netinstall-something.exe and msysGit-fullinstall-something.exe are installers for msysGit, the development environment used to develop Git for Windows. I hope this clears up a bit. -- Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund