Access Denied During EGit Push: How do I set the reference to exe and not folder?

Question

I am using EGit in Eclipse for a Gradle build. Because the Gradle configuration breaks when I clone to a different folder, I simply selected an already populated folder to create a new repository. When pushing to remote, I receive this error:

Transport Error: Cannot get remote repository refs.
Cannot run program "C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin":
    CreateProcess error=5, Access is denied

Most likely, the reference should be to git.exe and not its path, but I have not been able to find a way to configure this in Eclipse. The errors cascade:

org.eclipse.jgit.api.errors.TransportException: Cannot run program "C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin": CreateProcess error=5, Access is denied
at org.eclipse.jgit.api.LsRemoteCommand.execute(LsRemoteCommand.java:223)
at org.eclipse.jgit.api.LsRemoteCommand.call(LsRemoteCommand.java:159)
at org.eclipse.egit.core.op.ListRemoteOperation.run(ListRemoteOperation.java:99)
at org.eclipse.egit.ui.internal.components.RefSpecPage$3.run(RefSpecPage.java:250)
at org.eclipse.jface.operation.ModalContext$ModalContextThread.run(ModalContext.java:122)

Caused by: org.eclipse.jgit.errors.TransportException: Cannot run program "C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin": CreateProcess error=5, Access is denied
at org.eclipse.jgit.transport.TransportGitSsh$ExtSession.exec(TransportGitSsh.java:245)
at org.eclipse.jgit.transport.TransportGitSsh$SshFetchConnection.<init>(TransportGitSsh.java:262)
at org.eclipse.jgit.transport.TransportGitSsh.openFetch(TransportGitSsh.java:161)
at org.eclipse.jgit.api.LsRemoteCommand.execute(LsRemoteCommand.java:202)
... 4 more

Caused by: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin": CreateProcess error=5, Access is denied
at java.lang.ProcessBuilder.start(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.jgit.transport.TransportGitSsh$ExtSession.exec(TransportGitSsh.java:243)
... 7 more

Caused by: java.io.IOException: CreateProcess error=5, Access is denied
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.create(Native Method)
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.<init>(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ProcessImpl.start(Unknown Source)
... 9 more

Previously I had this warning, but somehow I was able to fix it:

Warning: EGit couldn't detect the installation path "gitPrefix" of native Git. Hence EGit can't respect system level...

I have checked that I have read/write access to the Git binary and tried running Eclipse as admin. According to the EGit wiki the Team>Git>Configuration/System settings path should be set to path "C:\Program Files(x86)\Git".

How do I set the reference to git.exe and not the folder?

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EDIT:

There is also an error in Eclipse:

FrameworkEvent ERROR

org.osgi.framework.BundleException: Could not resolve module: org.eclipse.egit.ui [117]
  Another singleton bundle selected: osgi.identity; osgi.identity="org.eclipse.egit.ui"; type="osgi.bundle"; version:Version="3.7.0.201502260915-r"; singleton:="true"

at org.eclipse.osgi.container.Module.start(Module.java:434)
at org.eclipse.osgi.container.ModuleContainer$ContainerStartLevel.incStartLevel(ModuleContainer.java:1582)
at org.eclipse.osgi.container.ModuleContainer$ContainerStartLevel.incStartLevel(ModuleContainer.java:1561)
at org.eclipse.osgi.container.ModuleContainer$ContainerStartLevel.doContainerStartLevel(ModuleContainer.java:1533)
at org.eclipse.osgi.container.ModuleContainer$ContainerStartLevel.dispatchEvent(ModuleContainer.java:1476)
at org.eclipse.osgi.container.ModuleContainer$ContainerStartLevel.dispatchEvent(ModuleContainer.java:1)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.eventmgr.EventManager.dispatchEvent(EventManager.java:230)
at org.eclipse.osgi.framework.eventmgr.EventManager$EventThread.run(EventManager.java:340)

Tried solutions:

1. Scrubbing the path and setting it to the minimal Eclipse dependency while including a Git path: C:\ProgramData\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\Git\bin

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My Specs

Intel Core i7-3635QM CPU @ 2.40 GHz—12 GB RAM

Windows 8.1 (64-bit)

Eclipse Luna (build 4.4.2.M20150204-1700)

JAVA v 1.8.0_25

BootLoader constants: OS=win32, ARCH=x86_64, WS=win32, NL=en_GB
Framework arguments:  -product org.eclipse.epp.package.java.product
Command-line arguments:  -os win32 -ws win32 -arch x86_64 -product
org.eclipse.epp.package.java.product

Answer 1

Team>Git>Configuration/System is supposed to be a folder (for the system wide configuration).

As mentioned in this thread:

In FS_Win32.java JGit tries to find native git by running the command "which git" in a bash.
If native git isn't installed or bash or git aren't on the PATH then this command fails. JGit logs an error to leave a trace that this attempt to find native git failed but will work ok anyway.

JGit tries to find native git in order to locate the system wide git configuration which is located in a path relative to the native git installation.
If it doesn't find a native git installation JGit can't locate this system wide git configuration and hence will ignore it.

Try and unzip a Git for Windows in a simple path, and add that to your %PATH% (in first place for testing).
Try with:

• an old msysgit Git For Windows: PortableGit-1.9.5-preview20150319.7z
• or a newer Git For Windows: PortableGit-2.3.5.8-dev-preview-64-bit.7z.exe

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Regarding the framework error:

org.osgi.framework.BundleException: Could not resolve module: org.eclipse.egit.ui [117]
  Another singleton bundle selected: osgi.identity; osgi.identity="org.eclipse.egit.ui"; type="osgi.bundle"; version:Version="3.7.0.201502260915-r"; singleton:="true"

The answer to "Egit is installed (came with Juno), but does not show at all" mentions:

Starting eclipse with the -clean command line option fixed the problem for me.