Re: Problems installing git-for-windows

From: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Date: Dec 7, 2015, 18:52 UTC
Message-ID: <CAGZ79ka_Gwz20WN8g6Akcm7btuLy+A-S+-kBjenN6-w6E1BRhw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <323868295.20151207124400@ptoye.com>

+cc Johannes

IIUC Git-for-Windows specific issues are handled in https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues instead of this mailing list.

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 4:44 AM, Peter Toye <git@ptoye.com> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> I've just downloaded git-for-windows. It uninstalled an earlier
> version that I had (about 5 years old) and I got some problems.
>
> 1)  It wanted to install into my User directory instead of the
> Program Files directory, which is the best place for all programs.
> The installer told me that this had access right problems, so I
> installed it into another directory. It seemed to go OK.
>
> 2)  However,  the  icons  on  the desktop pointed to the place that my
> previous installation had been ( C:\Program Files (x86)\Git ) - that's
> where I'd have hoped that the new installation would go!
>
> 3)  I  uninstalled it to see if a cleaner installatoin would work, and
> the  GIT-GUI icon didn't disappear  from the desktop - minor bug I
> suspect.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Peter
>  mailto:git@ptoye.com
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>
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