# error opening "git gui"

5 messages from 2015-09-11 to 2015-09-12. Participants: Renato Akaboci, Long, Adrian Ang, Johannes Schindelin, Andy.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/40332

## Renato Akaboci, 2015-09-11 16:48

Subject: error opening "git gui"
Message-ID: <CAF2U6N0HzgWK-4D2Ednt46u_R+eL2-2C9g9GpczyAvj+pKv-EQ@mail.gmail.com>
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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

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## Long, 2015-09-11 18:45

Subject: Re: error opening
Message-ID: <loom.20150911T204357-889@post.gmane.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/loom.20150911T204357-889%40post.gmane.org
In-Reply-To: <CAF2U6N0HzgWK-4D2Ednt46u_R+eL2-2C9g9GpczyAvj+pKv-EQ@mail.gmail.com>

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I'm having the same problem.  In fact, my post was right in front of yours.
 Another thing I notice is that Git commands are not listed in Windows Explorer.

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## Adrian Ang, 2015-09-11 21:33

Subject: Re: error opening
Message-ID: <loom.20150911T232244-141@post.gmane.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/loom.20150911T232244-141%40post.gmane.org
In-Reply-To: <CAF2U6N0HzgWK-4D2Ednt46u_R+eL2-2C9g9GpczyAvj+pKv-EQ@mail.gmail.com>

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

> 
> 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.



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## Johannes Schindelin, 2015-09-12 09:56

Subject: Re: error opening
Message-ID: <ace58f6b47c9c7096f8f30a4472433e8@dscho.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/ace58f6b47c9c7096f8f30a4472433e8%40dscho.org
In-Reply-To: <loom.20150911T232244-141@post.gmane.org>

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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:
> 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

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## Andy, 2015-09-12 16:17

Subject: Re: error opening
Message-ID: <loom.20150912T181707-598@post.gmane.org>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/loom.20150912T181707-598%40post.gmane.org
In-Reply-To: <CAF2U6N0HzgWK-4D2Ednt46u_R+eL2-2C9g9GpczyAvj+pKv-EQ@mail.gmail.com>

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Is apparently a known issue.

Here is a temp fix : https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/376

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