RubyMine Integration with GitHub for Windows

Question

I just learn Ruby and Rails, and use RubyMine for Windows as my IDE. GitHub has just released GitHub for Windows . I installed it and it seems like a nice interface. However, he did not seem to install anything like git.exe for RubyMine to pick up and work. So, RubyMine whines that it cannot find git, and git (in the form of GitHub for Windows) sits there blithely, ignoring RubyMine.

Naturally, I was looking for information about the GitHub site - nothing. Should I install the "old" git client for RubyMine to use?

Answer 1

The GitHub distribution comes with PortableGit , which is unpacked in AppData\Local\GitHub , and you can use this git client in RubyMine.

The full path to the git executable provided by the GitHub installation, which can be used in RubyMine on my system:

 c:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\GitHub\PortableGit_0812189c12ccff4584523d6efce294a33dd2332a\bin\git.exe 

Please note that this is probably a random hash along the way, so it may be different on your system.

If you do not want to dig this executable, just install and use msysgit , there should be no difference, in fact the version is GitHub PortableGit :

git version 1.7.10.msysgit.1 vs git version 1.7.11.msysgit.1 latest msysgit available at the time of writing this answer. Thus, the "old" command line client is newer than the "new" GitHub client, at least for now.