# Julia 1.6.1 upgrade and interference with RStudio Git?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-6-1-upgrade-and-interference-with-rstudio-git/63855>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
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**Created:** [June 30, 2021, 8:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-6-1-upgrade-and-interference-with-rstudio-git/63855 "2021-06-30T20:03:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![fkrauer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecc23a/32.png) [@fkrauer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fkrauer)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2021, 8:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-6-1-upgrade-and-interference-with-rstudio-git/63855/1 "2021-06-30T20:03:11Z")

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Hi everyone

I just upgraded Julia from 1.5.2 to 1.6.1, and something odd happened. Immediately afterwards, my Git tab disappeared from RStudio, and I cannot use Git version control anymore in RStudio. git init returns `fatal: cannot stat '[project path]/.git/description': Invalid argument`  
Is there some kind of interference or competition between Julia and RStudio regarding Git version control? TIA, Fabienne

EDIT: I found out it only happens for directories that are synchronized (OneDrive, Filr,…). This used to work well before though. It might be a coincidence.

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**Author:** ![rdeits](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/rdeits/32/286_2.png) [@rdeits](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/rdeits)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2021, 8:14pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-6-1-upgrade-and-interference-with-rstudio-git/63855/2 "2021-06-30T20:14:10Z")

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That’s really odd. It’s hard to imagine how those events could be related. Julia doesn’t install anything outside of `~/.julia`, and it doesn’t do anything to your system `git`.

The only way I could imagine this being related is if you’d somehow configured RStudio to look for `git` somewhere inside `.julia` (no idea how), and even that shouldn’t have _broken_ just by installing a new Julia version. It seems more likely to be a pure coincidence, or the result of some other latent varaible that we can’t observe from your report.

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**Author:** ![fkrauer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecc23a/32.png) [@fkrauer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/fkrauer)\
**Post date:** [June 30, 2021, 8:25pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-1-6-1-upgrade-and-interference-with-rstudio-git/63855/3 "2021-06-30T20:25:51Z")

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it strikes me as unlikely, too. May be some windows shenanigans.