Git Bash: Space in paths not handled properly

[lifenstein]

• I was not able to find an open
  or closed issue
  matching what I'm seeing

Setup

• Which version of Git for Windows are you using? 32-bit or 64-bit? Include the
  output of git version as well.

  Git 2.8.2 64 bit

$ git --version
git version 2.8.2.windows.1

• Which version of Windows are you running? 32-bit or 64-bit?

  Windows 7 Enterprise, 64-bit, SP1

• What options did you set as part of the installation? Or did you choose the
  defaults?

  Components: No "Additional icons"; checked everything else.
  PATH: 'Use Git and optional Unix tools from the Windows Command Prompt'
  SSH Executable: OpenSSH
  Line Ending conversions: Checkout Windows-style, commit Unix-style line endings
  Emulator: MinTTY
  Extra Options: Both "Enable file system caching" and "Enable Git Credential Manager" checked.

• Any other interesting things about your environment that might be related
  to the issue you're seeing?

  • I have SourceTree installed, which has an embedded version of Git for Windows, which also shows this error.
  • My user's PATH is as follows:

%CommonProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\npm;c:\Users\user\AppData\Local\atom\bin;C:\PROGRA~2\Oracle\VirtualBox;C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Code\bin;C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\atom\bin

• My system PATH is as follows:

C:\Windows;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\HashiCorp\Vagrant\bin;C:\PROGRA~2\Oracle\VirtualBox;C:\PROGRA~2\Oracle\VirtualBox;C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\;C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Windows Performance Toolkit\;C:\Program Files (x86)\WinSCP\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\120\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Web Platform Installer\;C:\Program Files\Ruby22-x64\bin;C:\Program Files\SourceGear\Common\DiffMerge\;C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin;C:\ProgramData\ComposerSetup\bin;C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\Software\RubyDevKit\bin;C:\Software\UnxUtils\usr\local\wbin;C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Atlassian\SourceTree\git_local\bin;c:\Users\user\AppData\Local\atom\bin;C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Code\bin;C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Composer\vendor\bin;C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\npm;C:\Users\user\xampp\php;C:\Users\user\xampp\php\ext;C:\Program Files (x86)\FrontRange Solutions\Service Management\;C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\npm;c:\Users\user\AppData\Local\atom\bin;C:\PROGRA~2\Oracle\VirtualBox;C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Code\bin;C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\atom\bin

Details

• Which terminal/shell are you running Git from? e.g Bash/CMD/PowerShell/other

  Git Bash

• What commands did you run to trigger this issue? If you can provide a
  Minimal, Complete, and Verifiable example
  this will help us understand the issue.

  • Opening the shell.

• What did you expect to occur after running these commands?

  • The bash prompt

• What actually happened instead?

  • A giant wall of text with, what seems to be, the same error: 'not a valid identifier'. The full output is in git bash prompt ouput.txt.

• If the problem was occurring with a specific repository, can you provide the
  URL to that repository to help us with testing?

  (No.)

[lifenstein]

I can reproduce the error by running bash. The output is cleaner this time as I had the chance to maximise the window before running it.

git bash prompt ouput.txt

[landstander668]

I'm not able to reproduce this on Windows 7 Professional SP1 64-bit, and my PATH setting incudes lots of spaces, so there's definitely something weird going on here. On the assumption that it isn's simply a damaged Git for Windows installation, could you please try running the following from the Windows command prompt?

cd /d "C:\Program Files\Git"
set PATH=C:\Windows;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\HashiCorp\Vagrant\bin;C:\PROGRA~2\Oracle\VirtualBox;C:\PROGRA~2\Oracle\VirtualBox;C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\;C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\Windows Performance Toolkit\;C:\Program Files (x86)\WinSCP\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\120\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Web Platform Installer\;C:\Program Files\Ruby22-x64\bin;C:\Program Files\SourceGear\Common\DiffMerge\;C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin;C:\ProgramData\ComposerSetup\bin;C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\Software\RubyDevKit\bin;C:\Software\UnxUtils\usr\local\wbin;c:\Users\user\AppData\Local\atom\bin;C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Code\bin;C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\Composer\vendor\bin;C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\npm;C:\Users\user\xampp\php;C:\Users\user\xampp\php\ext;C:\Program Files (x86)\FrontRange Solutions\Service Management\;C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin;C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\npm;c:\Users\user\AppData\Local\atom\bin;C:\PROGRA~2\Oracle\VirtualBox;C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Code\bin;C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\atom\bin;%CommonProgramFiles%\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\npm;c:\Users\user\AppData\Local\atom\bin;C:\PROGRA~2\Oracle\VirtualBox;C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Code\bin;C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\atom\bin
git-bash

All this done is temporarily remove C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\Atlassian\SourceTree\git_local\bin from your PATH setting, so we can see if the issue is caused by a conflict with the Git version bundled with SourceTree.

[dscho]

@lifenstein there is a clear indication of drush being installed. So you did not tell us the complete truth: you probably have installed Drupal in some form at some point, and it is quite possible that your $HOME/.bashrc (or a similar file) contain commands that the Git Bash does not like.

[lifenstein]

@landstander668 I am having the issue at my work computer, will do as you say when I get back to work.

@dscho Didn't realise Drush could be a factor! The issue seemed to be from the export commands somewhere in the init not handling spaces in paths correctly, and thought the PATH being too long may have had something to do with it.

[dscho]

Didn't realise Drush could be a factor!

Well, it was in the log.

The issue seemed to be from the export commands somewhere in the init not handling spaces in paths correctly

Probably missing quoting.

[lifenstein]

The issue was fixed by removing reference to drush in bashrc. Thanks @dscho !

[dscho]

Thanks for reporting back!