# does anyone succeeded to use the git module on windows ?

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/does-anyone-succeeded-to-use-the-git-module-on-windows/19350>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** windows\
**Created:** [September 24, 2015, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/does-anyone-succeeded-to-use-the-git-module-on-windows/19350 "2015-09-24T16:23:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![john\_zenou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6de8d8/32.png) [@john\_zenou](https://forum.ansible.com/u/john_zenou)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2015, 4:23pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/does-anyone-succeeded-to-use-the-git-module-on-windows/19350/1 "2015-09-24T16:23:02Z")

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Hi guys,

I’ve been struggling with this one for a while now. I am able to use all the windows extra module, but each time that I am running a task using the git module on a windows host this is the output i am receiving:

TASK: [pulling out code from github repo] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*

fatal: [tool\_windows] =\> module git not found in configured module paths. Additionally, core modules are missing. If this is a checkout, run ‘git submodule update --init --recursive’ to correct this problem.

FATAL: all hosts have already failed – aborting

I tried the solution proposing to use the callback\_plugins folder, but without any success.

Does anybody already succeeded to run this module on windows ? Is it even possible ?

I am using ansible 1.9.3 on a macbook with yosemite (I installing ansible on it using pip) , my host is a windows 7 enterprise with powershell 3.5 installed.

Thanks in advance

Jonathann.

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**Author:** ![Paul\_Totterman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Paul\_Totterman](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Paul_Totterman)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2015, 2:10pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/does-anyone-succeeded-to-use-the-git-module-on-windows/19350/2 "2015-09-25T14:10:15Z")

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> Does anybody already succeeded to run this module on windows ? Is it even possible ?

There is no git module in the windows modules group [https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/list\_of\_windows\_modules.html](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/list_of_windows_modules.html) . Apart from the modules listed on that page only script, slurp, raw and setup are mentioned on [https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro\_windows.html#what-modules-are-available](https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/intro_windows.html#what-modules-are-available) as working on windows.

Cheers,  
Paul

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**Author:** ![john\_zenou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6de8d8/32.png) [@john\_zenou](https://forum.ansible.com/u/john_zenou)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2015, 1:28pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/does-anyone-succeeded-to-use-the-git-module-on-windows/19350/3 "2015-09-27T13:28:30Z")

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thanks Paul , this made a lot of things clearer