Git Error: Couldn't Find Program: U'bash'

I am installing Git on a Windows 10 machine. I do not know how to place the bash.exe file in my Git path (or even really know what that means). I am using IPython Nootebook 2.7 t

Solution 1:

Jim, looks like we are in the same class and troubleshooting the same initial configuration. What worked for me in my Windows 7 environment, was to escape all slashes (not just ...\bin) and add ';' to separate the path, e.g.

os.environ['path']+=";C:\\Program Files\\Git\\bin"

Also, you may need to provide the full bash path for git execution, e.g.

/c/'Program Files'/Git/bin/git clone git@github.com:yourusername/Testing.git

Solution 2:

Bash is a Unix shell that is not installed by default on Windows. This is why you are receiving the Couldn't find program: u'bash' error - your script is telling Windows to use Bash to execute this script but Windows doesn't know what that is.

There are two solutions I would suggest to you :

1. If your end goal is to use git to interact with GitHub repositories, simply install their GitHub Desktop for Windows application which greatly simplifies the use of git and takes the terminal out of the equation.

2. If you want to be able to use the git command line or you want to push to repositories not on GitHub, install Cygwin. This is something of a terminal-like program for Windows that is much more similar to Linux and will simplify things like git command line. When you install it, you can specify to install git which will automatically add it to Cygwin's path

Solution 3:

If Michael's solution doesn't work for you.

Try to add C:\Program Files\Git\bin to your local environment.

Search for "Edit environment variables for your account" -> then in PATH add C:\Program Files\Git\bin if GIT is installed on this location.

64 bit Git on 64 bit Windows in my case.

Don't forget to restart your jupyter notebook, if you are setting it up for Jupyter.