Git was not found on the PATH for Bitbucket. Install Git 1.8.0+, excluding 1.8.4.3, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, and restart Bitbucket.

[Daniel Szabo]

Git was not found on the PATH for Bitbucket. Install Git 1.8.0+, excluding 1.8.4.3, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, and restart Bitbucket.

Since we are running rhel 6.5 I have to install git from source

I installed version 2.5.0 in a different directory other than /usr/bin/

Do I need to symlink this or move it or what?

[Ben Humphreys]

Hi Daniel,

One approach to solve this is to tell Bitbucket Server exactly where your Git binary is. You can do this by setting the following property in your bitbucket.properties file (use your path in place of the example):

plugin.bitbucket-git.path.executable=/usr/local/bin/git

If you do not have an existing bitbucket.properties file (you will if you have configured an external database), it can be created in the shared folder of your Bitbucket Server home directory.

More information on the bitbucket.properties file can be found here: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BitbucketServer/Bitbucket+Server+config+properties

[Daniel Szabo]

I have created the properties file and added plugin.bitbucket-scm-git.path.executable=path to my git still getting the same error.. is it getting the git location from the start script?

[Daniel Szabo]

I was able to just move the binaries for git to the /usr/bin/ directory and that worked.

[Jason Joyner]

This property has a typo or it was changed... it is now

plugin.bitbucket-git.path.executable=/opt/git/bin/git

[Ben Humphreys]

Thanks Jason, nice catch. I've corrected the answer with the correct property you provided.

[rrudnicki]

Hi Daniel, 

This sounds like some issue related to variables from your Linux. Check if your linux is looking for the version 2.5.0 or an older one. Try this:

which git

If this doesn't returns the git from your /usr/bin, then probably your OS is looking for an older version. You probably has a broken symbolic link. If is the case, you can re-do the symbolic likn to point to the new git version or fix that into your path environment. 

Cheers, 
Renato Rudnicki