`git filter-repo` commands output nothing on Windows
git, git-filter-repo, python, scoop-installer, windows
Solution
(Now updated for newer Python installers.)
When I installed `git-filter-repo` on Windows earlier this year, the following steps worked for me:
Download and install Python for Windows. In newer installers you need to go into the Advanced Options to make sure Python is added to your Path:
Confirm python was added to your path and that you can run either the command `python --version` or `python3 --version` from your Git command line. (I recommend Git Bash.) In my case, my executable name is `python` and if yours is too, you will need this in step #7 below.
Clone git-filter-repo from GitHub.
git clone https://github.com/newren/git-filter-repo.git
Run the command `git --exec-path` to see your Git exe directory.
From the `git-filter-repo` repo's root directory, copy the file `git-filter-repo` (about 160KB) into your Git exe directory.
In your command line where you use Git, type the command `git filter-repo`. If it works, you should get the message "No arguments specified." and you can skip step #7. If it doesn't work, it's likely that your python exe is `python` instead of `python3` as determined in step #2. Go to the next step.
If you get no message or an error message similar to "/usr/bin/env: ‘python3’: No such file or directory", then edit the file `git-filter-repo` that you copied into your Git exe directory in step #5, and change the first line from "python3" to "python".
Now be amazed at how fast and awesome `git-filter-repo` is.
Still having problems? If you didn't add the environment variable in step #1, some people have had luck in step #7 by changing their python command to just "py". This is the python launcher which can auto-detect the highest version installed on your machine. More info here. I should point out that this did not work for me with python 3.10.7. I actually tried this first but ended up re-installing and enabling the option to "Add python to environment variables" as described above in step #1.
Problem
I installed `git-filter-repo` via `scoop`, tried multiple `git filter-repo` commands e.g. `git filter-repo -h`, they all logged nothing, no warning or error, just nothing. Tried rebooting, reinstalling, and installing it on another Windows 10 computer, all reproduced it. `git-filter-repo`: v2.33.0 `git`: v2.33.0.windows.2 `python`: v3.9.7 `scoop`: ``` Current Scoop version: 09200504 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD) reset: skip when app instance is running (#4359) 'main' bucket: b71f4a842 (HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD) nunit-extension-vs-project-loader: Update to version 3.9.0 ``` How to solve this issue?