Re: getting fatal error trying to open git gui

[Jonathan Nieder]

Hi,

Briggs, John wrote:

> I just installed git for windows 10 and am getting "git-gui: fatal error" "Cannot parse Git version string.
>
> When I execute "git version" in the command prompt I get
> Git version 2.16.2.windows.1
>
> Everything else seems to be working. How can I get the gui to work?

That's strange indeed. Why is Git capitalized when you run
"git version"?

Thanks,
Jonathan

[Jonathan Nieder]

Briggs, John wrote:

> Got it figured out. Git gui must be ran as administrator.

Hm, that leaves me even more mystified.

Before v1.7.4-rc0~155^2~4 (git-gui: generic version trimming,
2010-10-07), git-gui was not able to handle "git version" output like
"git version 2.16.2.windows.1", but since then, it should have been
able to cope fine with it.

I wonder: do you have multiple versions of git gui installed?

Thanks,
Jonathan

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi John,

On Mon, 19 Mar 2018, Briggs, John wrote:

> I used Git-2.16.2-64-bit.exe to install. I used all defaults except for
> editor, where I chose Notpad++.

If your Git GUI mentions something funny about the version string when run
as normal user, but not when run as administrator, I do suspect some sort
of PATH problem.

Would you mind filling out a full bug report at
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/new?

Ciao,
Johannes