Got it figured out. Git gui must be ran as administrator. John
-----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, March 16, 2018 1:58 PM To: Briggs, John <john.bri...@aei.com> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org; git-for-wind...@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: getting fatal error trying to open git gui Hi, Briggs, John wrote: > I just installed git for windows 10 and am getting "git-gui: fatal error" > "Cannot parse Git version string. > > When I execute "git version" in the command prompt I get Git version > 2.16.2.windows.1 > > Everything else seems to be working. How can I get the gui to work? That's strange indeed. Why is Git capitalized when you run "git version"? Thanks, Jonathan