Why does git diff on Windows warn that the “terminal is not fully functional”?

Question

I\'m using msysgit 1.7.7.1 on Windows. I get an error when using git diff. What is causing this? Is there no diff tool included in msysgit? Wha

Answer 1

I work in powershell and I have the git executable directly in my path.

None of the suggested answers worked, but I found a solution that works for me.

I added a line in my powershell profile:

$env:TERM="msys"

Which fixed the problem for me.