I'm setting up my new Windows 10 box, and I'm not sure Git installed correctly. Here are the steps I've taken so far:
First, I downloaded and installed Git (v2.26.2) from here: https://git-scm.com/download/win
I use SourceTree (v3.3.8) with BeyondCompare4 (v4.3.4) as the external diff tool. The problem I ran into is that SourceTree won't launch BeyondCompare. Everything should be configured correctly in SourceTree's options. After some investigation, I found this post: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Sourcetree-questions/external-diff-stopped-working/qaq-p/970290
To summarize, it suggests manually editing the .gitconfig files here: C:\Users\.gitconfig and here: C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\etc\gitconfig
The problem is that the .gitconfig files do not exist at either location!
After a bit more searching, I found a suggestion to run, "git clone https://github.com/git/git". I did so at the root C:. But it just created a new C:\git folder with a bunch of stuff in it; but no .gitconfig file here either.
SourceTree is working fine otherwise though. I can push and pull code just fine.
Everything worked just fine on my old Windows 7 box. I had zero issues. Admittedly, I have no idea how I installed everything on that machine originally...
Suggestions?
Thanks!
The problem ended up being that Git's home directory defaulted to H:. My computer doesn't have an H:. I ended up adding a system variable to Windows to set my home directory to my default user folder. Then everything just worked.