[SOLVED] Where is Visual Studio's git.exe location?

Where is Visual Studio's git.exe location?

I'm configuring git through command line but changes seems doesn't apply to Visual Studio's git actions, so I'm wondering perhaps VS uses another git instance with other configs, where can I find which git.exe is getting used by VS?

Solution

Visual Studio gets the location of the various git tools from the config file in the .git folder, for example, in lines like this:

[difftool "vsdiffmerge"]
    cmd = \"C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Microsoft Visual Studio\\2019\\Community\\Common7\\IDE\\CommonExtensions\\Microsoft\\TeamFoundation\\Team Explorer\\vsdiffmerge.exe\" \"$LOCAL\" \"$REMOTE\" //t
    keepBackup = false

Other than that, the only place I can find a git.exe on my PC is here:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Community\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TeamFoundation\Team Explorer\Git\mingw32\bin\git.exe

For Visual Studio 2022 (which runs in native 64 bit mode), the location is:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TeamFoundation\Team Explorer\Git\mingw64\bin\git.exe