Visual Studio unable to locate git-credential-manager-core for recent git version

SourceLink doesn’t seem to work anymore for repository that require authentication. It seems that recently the git installer has moved the location of git-credential-manager-core.exe from C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\libexec\git-core to C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin (see https://github.com/GitCredentialManager/git-credential-manager/issues/762). Visual Studio is no longer able to locate it, even if this folder is in the path. Installing the standalone gcm-win doesn’t fix the problem either.

Logs:

Navigating to symbol 'XXX()' from 'XXX'.
Symbol found in assembly path 'C:\Users\XXX\.nuget\packages\xxx\n.n.n\lib\netstandard2.1\XXX.dll'
Found embedded PDB file.
git-credential-manager-core.exe: "git-credential-manager-core.exe" could not be found.
ERROR: The request failed with code 404 : "NOT FOUND". Treating 404 as authentication failure. Some services return 404 instead of 401 for authentication failures.
Timed out trying to download source code from SourceLink. Subsequent requests may succeed.

[chuckries]

@alefranz yes it is known to be broken in preview 1 unfortunately, but will be fixed in preview 2.

If you need to fix in preview 1, you should be able to:

1. Close all VS instances
2. Open <vs install root>\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TeamFoundation\Team Explorer\TeamExplorer.pkgdef as Administrator in a text editor
3. Change "GitCredentialManagerCoreExePath"="$PackageFolder$\Git\mingw64\libexec\git-core\git-credential-manager-core.exe" to "GitCredentialManagerCoreExePath"="$PackageFolder$\Git\mingw64\bin\git-credential-manager-core.exe"
4. Open a “Developer Command Prompt for VS 2022 Preview” as Administrator.
5. Run devenv /setup
6. Open VS and retry the repro.

[alefranz]

ah! I’m on Preview 1 of 17.4.0, I’ll wait for the next preview and re-open if it will be still an issue. Thank you both and have a nice weekend!