Visual Studio Code cannot detect cygwin git.exe path

Question

I've just started using Visual Studio Code (on Windows) for new UI project I've just joined. I have my Path environment variable configured to point to my cygwin git executable as follows:

C:\cygwin64\bin

I've verified that this is working by opening a Windows command prompt and successfully executing Linux commands. However, when I open the git project in Visual Studio Code, which looks to the path to resolve its "git.path" configuration, I get the following error:

ENOENT: no such file or directory, lstat 'C:\cygdrive'

Explicitly configuration the Workspace Settings file (settings.json) doesn't work either.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

just create a symlink (windows): open a cmd prompt and use the following command:

mklink /j "C:\cygdrive" C:\actual\path\to\your\cygdrive

PS: For babun users, it would be your home directory:

mklink /j "c:\home" C:\Users\{user}\.babun\cygwin\home