Git can't find the application

[aotongarcia]

Hey there, I came across this repository through gitea/issues/25189. I tried following your instructions but I can't get Git to find the application. I am on a Windows host, both git and git-credential-oauth.exe are in my system path. However, when following the repo instructions

Then test that Git can find the application: 
git credential-oauth

I get the following error

git credential-oauth configure
git: 'credential-oauth' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.

If I run git-credential-oauth configure --verbose I see it actually making changes to my .gitconfig file. Is there something I am missing?

[hickford]

both git and git-credential-oauth.exe are in my system path

Are git.exe and git-credential-oauth.exe in the same directory? You can check with where git and where git-credential-oauth. I recall there's some subtlety about the security of Git running a command in a different directory.

A workaround is to edit credential.helper in .gitconfig to specify the absolute path to git-credential-oauth.

[aotongarcia]

They are not in the same path, I didn't think to even do that - let me give it a try

[aotongarcia]

Looks like we are in business!

I'm happy to create a PR to update README.md for the Windows instructions :)

[hickford]

I recall there's some subtlety about the security of Git running a command in a different directory.

I wonder if this is specific to Git for Windows or could also apply on Linux? I can't find any documentation.