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

The only way I could get to work in my Windows 8.1 is the following: Add to system environment variables (not user variables):

c:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\GitHub\PortableGit_YOURVERSION\bin\;c:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\GitHub\PortableGit_YOURVERSION\libexec\git-core\;c:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\GitHub\PortableGit_YOURVERSION\cmd\

This fixed the "it looks like git is not installed on your system" error on my Visual Studio Code.

Answer 2

here's what worked for me, instead of using the visual code terminal to run your git commands, run the git commands from a cmd terminal at the path of your application

Answer 3

For Linux based OS. I had such an issue due to a corrupted path but was able to temporarily fix the issue and my git was immediately restored.

In case you're facing such path issue type the command below

export PATH="/usr/bin:/bin:$PATH"

Answer 4

i have recently start visual studio code and have this issue and just write the exact path of executable git solve the issue .... here is the code ...

"git.path": "C:\Program Files\Git\bin\git.exe",

Answer 5

In Visual Studio Code open 'user settings': ctrl + p and type >sett press enter

This will open default settings on left side and User settings on right side.

Just add path to git.exe in user settings

"git.path": "C:\\Users\\[WINDOWS_USER]\\AppData\\Local\\Programs\\Git\\bin\\git.exe"

Replace [WINDOWS_USER] with your user name.

Restart Visual Studio Code

Answer 6

This can happen after upgrading macOS. Try running git from a terminal and see if the error message begins with:

xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools) ...

If so the fix is to run

xcode-select --install

from the terminal. see this answer for more details