Problem

After upgrading Posit Workbench, you may start to see errors where the ability to search in files has stopped working. Whilst you may not see any errors, you might notice that the Find in Files tab does not return any values:

Solution

In many cases, the solution is to update GIT. Here's an example of one way to do this on RHEL/centos 7:

General instructions:

• yum install epel-release
• rpm -U https://repo.ius.io/ius-release-el7.rpm
• yum remove git
• yum install git236
• git --version

Support Ticket

If you still have issues after completing the above, you can always lodge a support ticket, where our group of friendly, and incredibly knowledgeable staff can assist with any issues that you may be having. You can submit a ticket here:

https://support.posit.co/hc/en-us/requests/new