Can't start a GIT build on Teamcity

Question

I'm trying to configure a build with Teamcity and GIT. Getting the following error during checkout -

Failed to perform checkout on agent: Unable to run git at path C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\

I've installed msysgit and git extensions and the above path contains git.exe. Any ideas?

Answer 1

I've found the solution. I was using the agentside checkout on Teamcity version 7.1.5 with GIT 1.8.3 while using the password authentication.

The Repo URL was missing .git in the end. Being a noob on GIT, didn't realize that was needed and was using SVN style URL. Adding .git resolved the issue.

Answer 2

Had the same error after switching VCS Checkout Mode to Automatically on Agent

Explicitly populating Path to Git with the full executable path in the VCS Root solved it.

Answer 3

I had the same issue because I forgot to install git on the agent.

The solution was simply to install git and restart the agent.