VSCode Terminal: git is not recognized as internal or external command (add git/cmd and git/bin)

When you get Git is not recognized error in Visual Studio Code, the most common reason for this, is that git/cmd and git/bin folders are not added to Environment Variables

Timestamp:
00:00 how to fix git is not recognized in vscode (visual studio code)
00:14 Go to start, environment variables
00:36 Add git/cmd
00:47 Add git/bin

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[ozanpress]

I had git cmd path already, but slash bin was missing. So adding the missing part solved the problem. Thanks

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[nassergmr]

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[gulzarahamed]

again it shows the same error message I followed all steps still not working

[frogYT]

There's no Git folder in "C:\Program Files".