Git: Installing Git in PATH with GitHub client for Windows

Question

GitHub for Windows does indeed install its own version of Git, but it doesn't add it to the PATH variable, which is easy enough to do. Here's instructions on how to do it:

1. Get the Git URL

   We need to get the url of the Git \cmd directory your computer. Git is located here:

   C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\GitHub\PortableGit_<guid>\cmd\git.exe
   

   So on your computer, replace <user> with your user and find out what the <guid> is for your computer. (The guid may change each time GitHub updates PortableGit, but they're working on a solution to that.)

   Copy it and paste it into a command prompt (right-click > paste to paste in the terminal) to verify that it works. You should see the Git help response that lists common Git commands. If you see The system cannot find the path specified. Then the URL isn’t right. Once you have it right, create the link to the directory using this format:

   ;C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\GitHub\PortableGit_<guid>\cmd
   

   (Note: \cmd at the end, not \cmd\git.exe anymore!)

   On my system, it’s this, yours will be different:

   ;C:\Users\brenton\AppData\Local\GitHub\PortableGit_7eaa494e16ae7b397b2422033as45d8ff6ac2010\cmd
   

2. Edit the PATH Variable

   Navigate to the Environmental Variables Editor (instructions) and find the Path variable in the “System Variables” section. Click Edit… and paste the URL of Git to the end of that string. Save! It might be easier to pull this into Notepad to do the edit, just make sure you put one semicolon before you paste in the URL. If it doesn't work it’s probably because this path got messed up either with a space in there somewhere (should be no spaces around the semicolon) or a semicolon at the end (semicolons should only separate URLs, no semicolon at beginning or end of string).

If it worked, you should be able to close & reopen a terminal and type git and it will give you that same git help file. Then installing the Linter should work. (Atom > File > Settings > Packages > Linter)

I would like to add one more thing to what the other answers have said. It is not compulsory that path will be:

C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\GitHub\PortableGit_<guid>\bin\git.exe

In my computer I did not found Git there.

BUT git and cmd are located in

git.exe

C:\Program Files\Git\bin\git.exe

cmd

C:\Program Files\Git\cmd

To add into PATH:

• Right-Click on My Computer
• Click on Advanced System Settings
• Click on Environment Variables
• Then, under System Variables, look for the path variable and click edit

• Add the path to git’s bin and cmd at the end of the string like this:

  ;C:\Program Files\Git\bin\git.exe;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd

OR

;C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\GitHub\PortableGit_<guid>\bin;C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\GitHub\PortableGit_<guid>\cmd

To verify, restart cmd and type git --version in cmd

Thanks everyone who have answered.I have seen all answers and to try to make it easy for everyone

Step 1: Type edit environment and select the option shown

Step 2: Select Path and click on edit

Step 3: In the end add the below statement(you can avoid the first ; if its already there)

;C:\Program Files\Git\bin\git.exe;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd

Step 4:- Click on ok

Step 5 **:- One of the important step which is highlighted by one of the users. thanks to him. Please, **CLOSE command prompt and REOPEN then try to write git.

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• Close command prompt and restart before trying the below command

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Here is the magic

I installed GitHubDesktop on Windows 10 and git.exe is located there:

C:\Users\john\AppData\Local\GitHubDesktop\app-0.7.2\resources\app\git\cmd\git.exe