In fact, they made it even easier (if only it was clear that they did so). Just leave everything as is, to retain your previous choices. You do not need to look any of them up, or fear for breaking your carefully honed setup. It is not showing you generic default settings. If you are doing an update, then every screen on the installer is pre-marked with the settings from your current (soon to be previous) install. Note: Their installer is actually intelligently designed to do the right thing (though it doesn't tell you upfront that it defaults to your prior settings automatically!). As per this FAQ, settings/customizations should be preserved if they were installed in the appropriate configuration folders. To update to the latest version of Git and Git Bash, you can download and install the latest version of Git for Windows. On my same machine when I run: echo $BASH_VERSIONĤ.4.23(1)-release Git for Windows installer Note that it is technically different from Bash. So your Git Bash version is: git -version Note, if you are instead looking to find out what version of Git Bash you are running, or want to see if you need to update Git Bash, it is part of Git for Windows. Googling that error led me to this article, which prompted me to upgrade, and here I am.

I added the remote: git remote add origin git push -u origin masterįatal: refs not found: did you run git update-server-info on the server?

This problem arose when I began a new Ruby on Rails project and tried to push it up to Git.

I found this article on a similar issue with Git on Mac OS X, which leads me to believe that it has something to do with a faulty PATH, but I'm still pretty new at all this (five months self-taught), so I'm at a loss in how to translate this to Windows. When I type git -version from my prompt, the same thing. That said, when I fire up my terminal window, it still is showing that I am running Git version 1.7.9.mysysgit.0. I downloaded the new version from the Git site and installed through the normal Git installer EXE. I just upgraded to Git 1.8.0.1 for Windows, from my previous version 1.7.9.mysysgit.0.

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