Stash requires Git 1.7.6 but Git 1.7.11 is installed

[Rolf Steinecke]

Hi,

I have installed Git 1.7.11 which worked fine with Stash until today. An hour ago I restarted Tomcat and now I get the message below. My path is correct and there is no other version on my server (Ubuntu)

Has anybody an idea?

Rolf

A fatal error has occurred

The following problem occurred which prevents Atlassian Stash from starting correctly:

• git was not found on the PATH for Stash. Please add git version 1.7.6 or higher to the PATH and restart Stash.

[Bryan Turner · Accepted solution]

Rolf,

Probably the easiest, and most guaranteed way to fix this is to tell Stash explicitly where your git is installed, rather than having it search the path to try and find it.

To do so, in your stash.home, create stash-config.properties (or edit the current one if it already exists) and add the following line:

plugin.stash-scm-git.path.executable=/usr/bin/git

This will configure Stash to use /usr/bin/git always, rather than allowing it to try and detect the one to use.

For our reference, did you upgrade your Stash version while you were restarting? Is that why you restarted? If so, which version of Stash are you running now?

[Rolf Steinecke]

Bryan,

thanks for the hint. I tried it and it worked - but not very long. After the next restart I had the same problem again.

The fault was that I run several Atlassian applications in one Tomcat. Tyler from Atlassian gave me the hint that this causes problems.

Now I started stash in an own tomcat and it seems to work now.

Anyway thanks for your help.

Rolf

[Adam Martin]

This works if you have to use RHEL 6.3 and are unable to upgrade git from 1.7.1. Install a newer version of GIT from source (http://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git#Installing-from-Source), and use this method to tell Stash to not use the installed version. Thank You @Bryan Turner ! Adam Martin - Isos Technology

[Matt]

type this in the terminal:

which git

It should produce something like that:

/usr/bin/git

If not, try

locate git |grep bin

or:

find / -name git |grep bin

You'll find the git executable.

next you may print out PATH

echo $PATH

Probably this is a problem, you have no path of git executable in $PATH.

edit /etc/profile and add:

export PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin/

If the result of which git is the /usr/bin/

[Matt]

and probably you'll have to do:

source /etc/profile

and then re-run stash

[Rolf Steinecke]

which git

brings "/usr/bin/git" as result.

/usr/bin/git --version has the result "git version 1.7.11.4" which is the same as git --version. And I have only one version of git installed.

The command "source/etc/profile" and a restart of tomcat had also no result.

:-((

[CelsoA]

Hi there,

The command source/etc/profile shoud have a space between source and the path to /etc/profile.

Also you can remove the old version of git from the server with:

sudo apt-get remove git git-svn sudo apt-get build-dep git-core

and install only the up to date on using the steps found on http://blog.jasonmeridth.com/2012/07/11/using-latest-version-of-git-on-ubuntu.html.

Please give it a try and let me know how it goes

Regards.