error on launch: "git version >= [X] is required for Git LFS, your version: [blank]"

Description

Error on launch about invalid version of Git LFS

Version

• GitHub Desktop: 1.2.6

• Operating system: Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.16299.547]

Steps to Reproduce

Unsure what changes to the app or my environment may have occurred to cause this to occur. It happens on app launch every time now.

Expected Behavior

No error should occur, this issue is new; have been using app for 6 mos on same system with same repos without a problem.

Actual Behavior

Error message about required version of Git LFS not installed. It will not recognize any of my remote repositories if you click the Close button. It treats all my repos as local only and wants me to publish them. Logs say:

2018-07-25T14:23:15.361Z - error: [ui] `git lfs install --skip-repo` exited with an unexpected code: 2.
git version >= 1.8.2 is required for Git LFS, your version: 

that log line isn’t cutoff (log file below). It’s not reporting a version.

Additional Information

PS C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin> .\git-lfs.exe version
git-lfs/2.4.2 (GitHub; windows amd64; go 1.8.3; git 6f4b2e98)

Logs

2018-07-25.desktop.production.log

[shiftkey]

My PATH includes C:\Users\[USER]\AppData\Local\GitHubDesktop\bin but nothing else related to Git, so I cannot call git from the command prompt. I have tried uninstalling, reinstalling, etc.

GitHub Desktop ships an embedded Git that isn’t added to your PATH. You’ll have to install Git for Windows if you want Git under C:\Program Files and accessible on your PATH.

[shiftkey]

I’m going to close this out because I don’t believe there’s anything we can do in Desktop to address this, and it seems like updates to products like Carbon Black should resolve the issue eventually.