Visual Studio Code cannot detect installed git

Question

Visual Studio Code reports \"It look like git is not installed on your system.\" when I try to switch to the git view. I know I have git installed and used by other git clie

Answer 1

If you have multiple environments. You could include Git Path in the VS Code Workspace Setting. For Windows, depending on your setting, you could hit Ctlr + P, search for "settings". Open setting.json(or File>Preferences>Settings). Navigate to Workspace Settings. Find "Path" and add paths to Git bin and cmd folders.

Environments can have their own paths. I discovered this when I echoed my PC %PATH% on cmd, git bin and cmd path where available but when I was working on my project, echoed %PATH% did not have git and cmd folder. Adding them, as shown above solved the issue.

Extra Notes:

On cmd, you can echo "%PATH%" and see if git bin and cmd folders are included. If not, you could concatenate using SETX PATH on, e,g

SETX PATH "%PATH%;Path_to_Git_bin;Path_to_Gt_cmd;"

This will make git available on local root but not on some environments which comes with their own paths(SETX /M PATH "%PATH%;Path_to_Git_bin;Path_to_Gt_cmd;" would have though).

In case you have a long Path that is chopped off dues to Path length(getting "Error: Truncated at X characters." message), you can increase the path length on regedit.

• On "Search Windows", search for "regedit". Right-click to open as Admin.
• Go to Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\FileSystem
• Right-click and modify. Change value data from 0 to 1

This will increase your path length. If it is already one, then I am not sure how to proceed from there :).

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