gvfs fails with Error: Could not find git.exe. Ensure that Git is installed.

Running gvfs clone fails with “Could not find git.exe. Ensure that Git is installed”.

Reproduction steps:

1. Install git 2.25
2. Install gvfs using SetupGVFS.1.0.19224.1.exe
3. Open a new Windows Command prompt (to ensure the latest changes to PATH, etc are configured)

C:\Temp> git --version
git version 2.25.0.windows.1

C:\Temp> gvfs clone https://whatever.com/repo_url
Cannot clone @ C:\TEMP\repo_url
Error: Could not find git.exe.  Ensure that Git is installed.

git is installed and in the PATH so gvfs should be able to find it and run without incident.

This is not specific to “clone”, the same error appears for any gvfs command

[derrickstolee]

The root cause here is if you install Git for Windows only for one user instead of the entire system.

To fix, uninstall Git then re-install for the whole system.

[ReCursia]

Solved the problem installing Scalar+Git with InstallScalar.bat, run as administrator