git.exe
by Git Project
Development Tool
Summary
Git version control system - distributed source code management tool.
git.exe is the 166th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 96,728 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Users\... and it is most often launched by git.exe.
166th
most commonly executed Windows program
96,728
observed executions
medium
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Users\...68.33%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TeamFoundation\Team Explorer\Git\mingw32\bin23.95%
- C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin3.4%
- C:\Program Files\Git\cmd3.32%
- C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\libexec\git-core0.91%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TeamFoundation\Team Explorer\Git\mingw32\bin0.02%
- D:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TeamFoundation\Team Explorer\Git\mingw32\bin0.02%
- D:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TeamFoundation\Team Explorer\Git\cmd0.02%
- C:\Program Files\Git\bin0.01%
- C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Enterprise\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TeamFoundation\Team Explorer\Git\mingw64\bin0.01%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 93cfb380f88e43e269a8c5598c537349d903bfbe9adf367786f1e14b2175f22129.79%
- 928f42c5fc3b37633ac2c223ae37c61479e3451427db1e5a48c78e764614323b23.95%
- 57eb72d7033b8be042cc0e9f45bd7c9267376fefc06b1cc9ff0afd9541a7722f14.71%
- b93eb01b5b6d546c999a3ec6489c71fc0b92606c1b76cdfcba1f197a2c8ef81312.28%
- 624db96ea63b057dc5872af3c053a6fae5c163fd5dc323309aff11c9504809af9.17%
- 2bce52671ae5f02a09a6bd6625c31b9fbd81a48e0b2895042e8cddb18857f6d12.75%
- 134a3923dadcb35e4a017ea27cdeb3aa017c29e012a5566180866f37f9fbdf5f2.51%
- 2afc512617a6b395a2095df7f4ca7558195eec0e786773a0097cf3d515b734fc0.64%
- eb8faf2ef8a2225ed3ea5ff6bc8aef7d986b580bac4f49fa0f88a4f6e4c0eb310.53%
- 28e7a4e991814cd245648c06a844c360e8d36464964307b050c84452674a4ecf0.51%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- atom.exe43.64%
- git.exe11.46%
- cmd.exe3.54%
- git-remote-https.exe2.17%
- explorer.exe1.85%
- Code.exe1.69%
- sh.exe1.13%
- bash.exe0.32%
- node.exe0.24%
- powershell.exe0.16%
Top Parents
- git.exe44.03%
- devenv.exe24%
- Code.exe11.46%
- atom.exe0.59%
- sh.exe0.5%
- go.exe0.43%
- cmd.exe0.32%
- powershell.exe0.29%
- git-remote-https.exe0.18%
Top Children
- conhost.exe49.6%
- git.exe44.96%
- git-remote-https.exe4.83%
- sh.exe0.07%
- ssh.exe<0.01%
Rare or environment-specific process names are omitted from ancestry tables. Percentages are of all observed relationships.
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Data from EchoTrail's dataset of ~346M Windows process executions. Last extracted 2026-08-04.