ERROR: unable to find git executable in PATH/PATHEXT

Question

My company asked us to install git guardian for security reason and as a part of installation I happened to do the following:

1. Added the API key in the envionmental variables
2. Added the pre-commit-config.yaml file in my root directory [C:\Users\umasravanthi.k01]
3. Installed Python and added its path in the env variables.
4. Ran: pip install ggshield; pip install pre-commit; and while running ggshield install --mode global this command in cmd I'm getting this Error: unable to find git executable in PATH/PATHEXT

Can someone help me?

Answer 1

ggshield (GitGuardian/ggshield) includes a PR (432) which shows it executes git commands based on the OS PATH.

So double-check your %PATH% environment variable: C:\Program files\Git\bin should be in it before you start executing pip install pre-commit.