Getting "command not found" error message when running "git log" on Windows

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I have installed git and all the commands work properly except git log. When I type git log, this message appears:

command not found

what could be the possible reason for such a strange behaviour?

$ git --version
git version 2.16.1.windows.4

$ which git
/mingx64/bin/git
git-log windows git
2 Answers

I just found the solution and wanted to share it with those who may come across the same error. It seems git log uses PAGER to show the messages and what I did was to use the git config --global core.pager '' command to stop git from using PAGER.

user_6673550

I've encountered this issue (or something similar to it).

Check inside your git config file, which you can find by running git config --list --show-origin

Check to see if you have any properties appended to that file that look incorrect.

For my issue, I had:

[core]
fsmonitor ==

Which was incorrectly setting a git property to an inappropriate value, causing the output to be: =: =: command not found

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