Re: error opening

From: Adrian Ang <adrian.c.ang@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 11, 2015, 21:33 UTC
Message-ID: <loom.20150911T232244-141@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAF2U6N0HzgWK-4D2Ednt46u_R+eL2-2C9g9GpczyAvj+pKv-EQ@mail.gmail.com>

Renato Akaboci <renato.akaboci <at> gmail.com> writes:

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> 
> Hi,
> 
> 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´ve just installed git as normal. Git Bash works perfectly, and if I
> call "git gui" on bash or cmd, it open. I guess that is something
> missing on my machine, but I don´t know what.
> - My Operational System is Windows 10 x64
> 
> Any advice will be appreciated.
> Thanks in advance
>

I'm having the exact same problem.

Installation proceeds normally, but trying to open Git GUI will always fail with the same error message you have.

I tried searching the Registry to see if this is a misconfiguration somewhere, but no such setting exists in my registry. I don't know if this configuration is baked into the Windows x64 Git GUI executable or set in an ini or config file somewhere.

I'm trying to document the install process for my team's implementation of git. If this issue can't be resolved, or if previous Windows installer versions aren't available, my team's git implementation is blocked.

We could try to simply copy the "missing" subdirectory (which actually does exist somewhere else) into the "cmd" subdirectory, but that would seem really clumsy and it will affect the team members' first impressions of git. We're trying to move from SVN to git, and most of my team members have not used git before.

Any assistance or reply from the devs would be appreciated.  Thank you.