Ran the installer, selected the option to not modify the path & the path was modified anyway... it removed git from the path (it was there from a prior install). I should NOT have to manually fix my path after an update, even the option to add git to the path should be smart enough to recognize it's there already & leave the path unmodified (sorry, I know that's 2 different bugs in 1 email, but they are related).
John Meyer
Technical Lead, ZeroChaos
jmeyer@zerochaos.com
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On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 12:48 PM, John Meyer [off-list ref] wrote:
Ran the installer, selected the option to not modify the path & the path was modified anyway... it removed git from the path (it was there from a prior install). I should NOT have to manually fix my path after an update, even the option to add git to the path should be smart enough to recognize it's there already & leave the path unmodified (sorry, I know that's 2 different bugs in 1 email, but they are related).
Are you talking about Git for Windows?
Please file a bug at https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/new
Hi Stefan,
just to close the loop:
On Wed, 30 May 2018, Stefan Beller wrote:
On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 12:48 PM, John Meyer [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted
Ran the installer, selected the option to not modify the path & the path was modified anyway... it removed git from the path (it was there from a prior install). I should NOT have to manually fix my path after an update, even the option to add git to the path should be smart enough to recognize it's there already & leave the path unmodified (sorry, I know that's 2 different bugs in 1 email, but they are related).
Are you talking about Git for Windows?
Please file a bug at https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/new
I filed it: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/issues/1696
Ciao,
Johannes