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I have Windows 8.1 on my laptop and I've installed Git. If I type git --version in Windows' command prompt, the result is git version 1.8.5.2.msysgit.0. I can commit and update all the stuff on the server, everything works fine.

At the same time, I'd like to have a GUI for that so I've installed GitHub for Windows. Unfortunately, it does not let me commit my changes as it report that there is an error as suggests opening a shell (also console-like, but looks different from usual Windows' cmd). If I type in that shell git --version I get git version 1.8.4.msysgit.0 so apparently the GUI app uses an older version of git than the one I need, although I have a needed version of Git installed on my computer.

I appreciate any hints on how to make the GUI app to use the new version of git. If any details are still needed, please tell me - I'll provide them asap. Thanks

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You will find the git (embedded in G4W -- GitHub for Windows as SLaks mentions) in 

%LOCALAPPDATA%\GitHub\Portable_Git_xxxxx\

(See "Can the credentials stored in Github for Windows be shared with the whole operating system?")

You can try and replace that folder by a portable Git, PortableGit-1.8.5.2-preview20131230.7z: once uncompressed, you can rename the folder with the same name 'Portable_Git_xxxxx' and see if that works.

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  • Thanks, that helped upgrade the version (at least G4W's shell now report the same version 1.8.5.2), however still when I am cloning using G4W I get `fatal: ***.git/info/refs not valid: is this a git repository?`. When I do cloning using cmd, it all goes fine and there are no problems. Shall I ask a separate question? – SBF Jan 27 '14 at 18:47
  • @Ilya I suspect G4W reads the `%APPDATA\Local\GitHub\PortableGit_xxxx\VERSION` (which isn't part of a regular msysgit installation archive). Try to put a file named `VERSION` in that `Portable_Git_xxx` folder, with `753d3d695406affabf6310fc4a98d13acddb11ae` in it, and name your `Portable_Git`: `Portable_Git_753d3d695406affabf6310fc4a98d13acddb11ae` – VonC Jan 27 '14 at 19:12