herb miller

If your instance of PHP Storm is saying it can’t find git.exe then there’s an easy way to fix it. Assuming you do have git installed!

Background

• I’ve just upgraded to PHPStorm 8.
• I opened up my GitHub clone of the shortcake plugin.
• PHP Storm detected that it was a Git repo so checked for git.exe
• Which it couldn’t find.
• I had no idea either… I use GitHub
• But found the answer soon enough.

My solution

• Start Git Shell
• Execute where git.exe
• Take your pick from the two listed

  C:\GitHub>where git.exe
  C:\Users\Herb\AppData\Local\GitHub\PortableGit_c2ba306e536fdf878271f7fe636a147ff37326ad\cmd\git.exe
  C:\Users\Herb\AppData\Local\GitHub\PortableGit_c2ba306e536fdf878271f7fe636a147ff37326ad\bin\git.exe
  

• Paste the file name into PHPStorm and Test
• Alternatively just type PATH

  C:\GitHub>path
  PATH=C:\Users\Herb\AppData\Local\GitHub\PortableGit_c2ba306e536fdf878271f7fe636a
  147ff37326ad\cmd;C:\Users\Herb\AppData\Local\GitHub\PortableGit_c2ba306e536fdf87
  8271f7fe636a147ff37326ad\bin;C:\Users\Herb\AppData\Local\Apps\2.0\GPPN55Z3.BLR\M
  H0028JJ.XXV\gith..tion_317444273a93ac29_0002.0007_cc7bcd60c65d01d4;C:\Users\Herb
  \AppData\Local\GitHub\git-media-amd64_0.2.2;C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v
  4.0.30319;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\Sys
  tem32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files (x86)\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\Co
  re-Static;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Acronis\SnapAPI\;C:\Program Files\
  TortoiseSVN\bin;C:\ProgramData\ComposerSetup\bin;c:\php;c:\mysql\bin;c:\cygwin\b
  in;c:\d_drive\dos;c:\php;c:\vslick\win
  

• Choose the first one, copy and paste, then append \git.exe

Update July 2015

What worked in January no longer works today.

When I started Git Shell from the desktop I got taken to the Windows Power Shell where the PATH is not defined to run cygwin, so which git.exe didn’t work. Furthermore path didn’t appear to work either.

I realised that I needed to start the Git Shell from GitHub for Windows because this is where my default shell is set to Cmd

• Start GitHub for Windows
• Choose Settings > Open in Git Shell

But before I realised this I did manage somehow to discover the path after which I created a git.bat file to invoke git.exe.

So now I can use the git command in my normal command prompt, except git commit didn’t work because it couldn’t find gitpad. I fixed this using

git config --global core.editor vs

where vs is the Visual Slick Editor.

See also

• stackoverflow.com/questions/11928561/where-is-git-exe-located
• windows.github.com
• help.github.com/articles/set-up-git
• stackoverflow.com/questions/10564/how-can-i-set-up-an-editor-to-work-with-git-on-windows