Jenkins git-client: how to move to jgit on windows

Question

Since the Jenkins git-client plugin moved to use jgit, there have been a lot of issues with configuration and all of the solutions I have seen invo

Answer 1

JGit picks up some setting from the system wide configuration file /etc/gitconfig which git installs, but only if it can find it. It will find the file if git is in PATH, but you can also set the system property jgit.gitprefix to the path of where git is installed, i.e. path to the directory above the bin directory, .e. C:\Program Files\Git