Detecting alternative paths for git

[ohhmm]

git.path property may offered to be updated with auto-detected values if none working git path appears there.

[eamodio]

Can you please add more detail as to the issue you are experiencing and/or the steps to reproduce it? Thank you!

[ohhmm]

STR:

1. Install Visual Studio
2. Don't install git

Git is under Visual Studio installation path

But Visual Studio Code doesn't detect it

[github-actions]

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[eamodio]

Sorry, but I'm not sure what issue you are having here. Can you please provide more details?

[ohhmm]

STR:
Don't install git
Install Visual Studio (not VScode)

Expected:
VScode works with git path from Visual Studio, detected

Actual:
Git features disabled

[RivenSkaye]

This seems like you're having problems with VSC's built-in git stuff rather than this extension?
Either way, you'll need to manually set git.path to the executable shipped with Visual Studio, as that one isn't in any directory listed in your PATH environment variable.

[ohhmm]

I would think that the path of git supplied with Visual Studio should be taken if git is absent in PATH env var. This seem more expected

[RivenSkaye]

There's a few flaws in your logic here

1. Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio are completely different products. They're both IDEs from Microsoft, but have no relation to one another. And a lot of setups will have one, but not the other, which might mean the Visual Studio paths won't even exist on the system.
2. Depending on what version of Visual Studio you may or may not have installed, the directory where its corresponding git is can change as well. There is no certain way to find it.
3. The git.path setting is internal to VSC – it's a valid settings key without GitLens installed. GitLens only uses it to find your preferred Git installation.
4. The setting is available to you to change yourself, so that any non-automatically detected git install can be used.

I think you opened this issue in the wrong repository in the first place. Try the actual repository for vscode considering you want the IDE as a whole to change default behavior. This repository is only for VSC plugin GitLens, which serves to enhance the git functionality already present in the base program, which is also why it uses VSC's existing defaults.