From: Briggs, John <john.briggs@aei.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 20:24:01 GMT
Subject: RE: getting fatal error trying to open git gui
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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:

> 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