msysgit bash shell- how to troubleshoot “cannot find command”

Question

I need help getting git extensions to run with msysgit. I have had bad luck with extensions git-tfs and git-fetchall, in both cases it is the same problem. The addon will

Answer 1

Ok, I found the disconnect. It was elusive until I started running "echo $PATH" from the shell (rather then echo %PATH% from the windows command shell, which had a different result).

Two problems:

1. When I configured the environment variables, I originally had a '\' at the end of the path. This seemed to caused echo $PATH to show invalid pathnames like '/c:/directory' instead of '/c/directory/.

2. A reboot was necessary for changes to the system environment variables made through the windows UI to be reflected in the msysgit/bash/git shell.