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RE: getting fatal error trying to open git gui

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BJBriggs, John <john.briggs@aei.com>
Date
Mar 16, 2018, 20:24 UTC
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Got it figured out. Git gui must be ran as administrator.
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> 
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2018 1:58 PM
To: Briggs, John <JOHN.BRIGGS@aei.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org; git-for-windows@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: getting fatal error trying to open git gui
Hi,
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"?

Thanks, Jonathan

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