Something unforeseen has happened: Git committing or pushing failed: The system cannot find the path specified.

[biomassboilers]

I have installed gitbacked into https://www.dokuwiki.org/install:dokuwiki_on_a_stick, and local.php looks like the following:

<?php
/*
 * Dokuwiki's Main Configuration File - Local Settings
 * Auto-generated by config plugin
 * Run for user: admin
 * Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2025 12:51:02 +0200
 */

$conf['title'] = 'Planheat Wiki';
$conf['license'] = '0';
$conf['breadcrumbs'] = 0;
$conf['youarehere'] = 1;
$conf['useacl'] = 1;
$conf['superuser'] = '@admin';
$conf['disableactions'] = 'register';
$conf['datadir'] = './data/gitrepo/wiki/pages';
$conf['mediadir'] = './data/gitrepo/wiki/media';
$conf['gitPath'] = 'C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin\git.exe';

The folders needed exist. However, every time I save a change, I get Something unforeseen has happened: Git committing or pushing failed: The system cannot find the path specified.

Can anyone help me? I'm not sure what is misconfigured.

[biomassboilers]

I found that there is GUI configuration for gitbacked under Admin >> Configuration Manager >> Plugins >> Gitbacked, and it corrected the local.php. The following works more how I want it to:

<?php
/*
 * Dokuwiki's Main Configuration File - Local Settings
 * Auto-generated by config plugin
 * Run for user: admin
 * Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2025 15:24:31 +0100
 */

$conf['title'] = 'Planheat Wiki';
$conf['license'] = '0';
$conf['breadcrumbs'] = 0;
$conf['youarehere'] = 1;
$conf['useacl'] = 1;
$conf['superuser'] = '@admin';
$conf['disableactions'] = 'register';
$conf['plugin']['gitbacked']['updateIndexOnPull'] = 1;
$conf['plugin']['gitbacked']['repoPath'] = './data/gitrepo';
$conf['plugin']['gitbacked']['repoWorkDir'] = './data/gitrepo';
$conf['plugin']['gitbacked']['gitPath'] = '"C:\\Program Files\\Git\\mingw64\\bin\\git.exe"';
$conf['datadir'] = './data/gitrepo/wiki/pages';
$conf['mediadir'] = './data/gitrepo/wiki/media';

I'm trying to keep it in sync with a Gitea wiki, which uses git and *.md files, hopefully will figure something out.

[mhoffrog]

@biomassboilers The backslashes \ in your first config did have been needed to be escaped by another \ since PHP is treating the backslash as an escape character in single quoted strings. I guess that was the issue. The Admin editor did fix that.
Please let us know, if the issue is resolved now.