Re: error opening

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sep 12, 2015, 09:56 UTC
Message-ID: <ace58f6b47c9c7096f8f30a4472433e8@dscho.org>
In-Reply-To: <loom.20150911T232244-141@post.gmane.org>

Hi Adrian,

please note that Renato never got your mail (you should always use reply-to-all). I re-Cc:ed him, please do not forget to reply-to-all next time.

On 2015-09-11 23:33, Adrian Ang wrote:

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> Renato Akaboci <renato.akaboci <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> I´m in trouble just after installation of my Git for Windows.
>> I get a box with error saying:
>>
>> couldn´t read file "C:\Program
>> Files\Git\cmd\mingw64\libexec\git-core\git-gui": no such file or
>> directory
> 
> I'm having the exact same problem.

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