You need to have C:\Program Files\Git\cmd in your path. Make sure it is there, start a new cmd prompt, type git --version.

You can also use chocolatey to install it:

Copychoco install make

Here's the package.

• Go to ezwinports, https://sourceforge.net/projects/ezwinports/files/

• Download make-4.2.1-without-guile-w32-bin.zip (get the version without guile)

• Extract zip
• Copy the contents to C:\ProgramFiles\Git\mingw64\ merging the folders, but do NOT overwrite/replace any exisiting files.

Turns out .profile was setting the PATH variable, preventing it from recognizing git in the Windows path. Commented out this line and it worked.

There are two versions of Git that you are likely to be using - the msysgit distribution or Cygwin.

Installing Additional Utilities For Cygwin

Although you might have only installed Git as a part of your Cygwin install (if you used Cygwin), Cygwin has a program called setup.exe which you can use to add packages. Essentially, all you have to do is run setup.exe and pick out what programs you want installed when you get to the Select Packages window. The introduction here provides a good overview with images that detail the process.

Cygwin's installer is smart enough to figure out that you have a preexisting installation, and it will add packages to your installation (instead of nuking it and starting over).

MSYS

The other version of Git you are probably using (if not Cygwin) is msysgit. Because msysgit installs a minimal Unix environment which is not really compatible with MinGW, you'll end up having to install the MinGW suite beside msysgit. The MinGW Getting Started page gives a detailed overview on how to go about getting MinGW installed - since I have no experience with MinGW personally, all I can really do is refer you to their instructions.

You'll then have to migrate your msysgit installation into MinGW. This can be accomplished by doing the following (taken from here). After the following sequence is done, MinGW should find your Git installation.

cd GITDIR # Where GITDIR is wherever inside Program Files you put Git
cp bin/git* /MINGW/bin # Where MINGW is wherever you put MinGW
cp -r libexec/git* /MINGW/libexec
cp -r share/git* /MINGW/share

go to admin folder where you can see ~/.bashrc folder edit this folder with export PATH=$PATH:/c/Program\ Files/Git/bin:/c/Program\ Files/Git/cmd

To add say C:\Program Files\nodejs to the path inside the shell, you would issue:

PATH="C:/Program\ Files/nodejs;$PATH"
export PATH

in some shells you can combine those two commands in one:

export PATH="C:/Program\ Files/nodejs;$PATH"

to look to see what folders are currently searched:

echo $PATH

You may be able to get the shell to reread the environment giving the -l option when you run the shell. See what your shell is by running:

echo $SHELL

If you get something, then try running:

$SHELL -l 

which starts another login shell. However better is to use:

exec $SHELL -l

which starts a new shell replacing the old one. Without "exec" you'll have the new shell nested inside the old one, which might not be so bad.