It’ll be fun, they said.
Every day, it seems, I bang my head on the wall. Today? Tower — a normally-great git frontend on Mac — decided to throw up its hands and refuse to work on my work laptop, running Windows, of course. It’s trying to use AskPass.exe, which doesn’t exist. Did it get cleaned out by my company’s “security” scanning? I mean, there are only about 30 different scripts that run on login, to make sure I don’t do anything they don’t want me to do. Did one of them do something here? Why would that file go missing, all of a sudden?
So I go to Tower’s over-engineered, Apple-product-pages-inspired mess of a web site, and try to download an installer. No, instead, I get the same single run-in-place executable 3-times. Do they not have an installed version any more?
Is this a problem with git? Did git for Windows take a dump?
Is this even a problem with that file being gone, or is this a spurious error message? Lots of Stack Overflow questions seem to indicate that this happens with Visual Studio, but the file reference is clearly not in any Visual Studio installation location. It’s obviously trying to reference something in Tower’s files. And, of course, I can’t find a single reference in Google to this. Once again, I’m the only person in the entire world with a particular technical problem.
So I sent a request for support from Tower, then installed GitHub Desktop, got my new branch pulled, and moved on. But, dang.
Why does this stuff need to be like this? And why does it need to be like this so often?