Programmatically (not manually) finding the path where Git is installed on a Windows system

Question

I\'d like to write a small build helper tool that shall read some properties of the current Git working directory, like the last commit hash, whether there\'s modified files

Answer 1

If you are in Windows 8 and above here are the steps that you can follow.

1. go to your start screen and search for git.exe
2. In the search result right click on the Git Gui/ Git Bash icon and select Open File location
3. You will be taken to a flder where the shortcuts will be located. Right click on the shortcut nd select properties
4. the file location can be found in the Target field

For me it was "C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Programs\Git\cmd\git-gui.exe"

Hope it helps