Re: v2.5.2 installation on Windows 10

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sep 12, 2015, 09:57 UTC
Message-ID: <a64946ac120a98fc1058bd194153cd0b@dscho.org>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20150911T181145-207@post.gmane.org>

Hi Long,

On 2015-09-11 18:13, Long wrote:

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> Installation of 64bit could complete, but running Git GUI always prompt the
> error below:
> 
> Couldn’t read file “C:\Program
> Files\Git\cmd\mingw64\libexec\git-core\git-gui”: no such file or
> directory

Please see the corresponding ticket: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/376

In short: I will release an updated installer soon, with other fixes. In the meantime, as a work-around you could right-click on the Git GUI shortcut (you can right-click the icon in the Windows menu and open the file location to get there), select Properties... and change the Target: from

"C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git-gui.exe"

to

"C:\Program Files\Git\cmd\git.exe" gui

It will open an ugly, unnecessary console until the next Git for Windows version is available, but at least it will work until then.

Out of curiosity: how did you go about finding the best place to report this bug?

Ciao, Johannes