astral-sh/uv · error

`git` not found in PATH

Error message

`git` not found in PATH

What it means

Error "`git` not found in PATH" thrown in astral-sh/uv.

Source

Thrown at crates/uv/src/commands/project/init.rs:1288

/// Currently, this only tries to get the author information from git.
fn get_author_info(path: &Path, author_from: AuthorFrom) -> Option<Author> {
    if matches!(author_from, AuthorFrom::None) {
        return None;
    }
    if matches!(author_from, AuthorFrom::Auto | AuthorFrom::Git) {
        match get_author_from_git(path) {
            Ok(author) => return Some(author),
            Err(err) => warn!("Failed to get author from git: {err}"),
        }
    }

    None
}

/// Fetch the default author from git configuration.
fn get_author_from_git(path: &Path) -> Result<Author> {
    let Ok(git) = GIT.as_ref() else {
        anyhow::bail!("`git` not found in PATH")
    };

    let mut name = None;
    let mut email = None;

    let output = git
        .build_command()
        .arg("config")
        .arg("--get")
        .arg("user.name")
        .current_dir(path)
        .stdout(Stdio::piped())
        .stderr(Stdio::null())
        .output()?;
    if output.status.success() {
        name = Some(String::from_utf8_lossy(&output.stdout).trim().to_string());
    }

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When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at crates/uv/src/commands/project/init.rs:1288 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of astral-sh/uv@f1a42680ff (2026-08-16). Data as JSON: /api/errors/1345ddd51fc19b00. Report an issue: GitHub.