check Git installed and prompt if not found about desktop HOT 8 CLOSED

You should be able to use the same Git repository in both GitHub Desktop and in your terminal, as long as you have Git installed separately.

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That wasn't the case for the old design version (I believe it installed full Git with the Desktop already).

The "Git Shell" experience was not ported over to Desktop Electron for multiple reasons. The discussion to read the back story on this is desktop#340

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We don’t make the Git we use in the app available from the CLI because we apply some optimizations to it to decrease GitHub Desktop’s size that hinder usability. For example, we remove translations of text to languages other than English, because those translations take up space and make it harder to parse error messages.

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So what would be the recommended procedure of executing direct git commands, without having to clone repositories twice?

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@Madis0 as @j-f1 pointed out, the embedded version of Git is not intended for end-users to invoke directly. Please refer to your distribution's package manager for how to obtain Git.

I'm going to mark this as an enhancement for an external contributor to make this experience better for Linux users to explain this message better.

I think all we need to do here is update is-git-on-path.ts to check that git is available on the user's PATH.

https://github.com/desktop/desktop/blob/e17d8a565c28760c781c18c652c95ebf0e196066/app/src/lib/is-git-on-path.ts#L9-L11

I think where should be usable here, similar to the checks we do for Windows.

https://github.com/desktop/desktop/blob/e17d8a565c28760c781c18c652c95ebf0e196066/app/src/lib/is-git-on-path.ts#L14-L32

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Thanks again, I now tested it on Windows too and apparently it also prompts for install there.

That wasn't the case for the old design version (I believe it installed full Git with the Desktop already).

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I'm working to get this merged upstream in desktop#4619, and I'll close this out when we've published a new update containing the fix.

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This was released in 1.2.0.

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