Adding Git-Bash to the new Windows Terminal

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I’m trying to add a new terminal (Git Bash) to the new Windows Terminal. However, I can’t get it to work.

I tried changing the commandline property in the profiles array to git-bash.exe but no luck.

Does anyone have an idea how to get this to work?

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Overview

  1. Open settings with Ctrl+,
  2. You’ll want to append one of the profiles options below (depending on what version of git you have installed) to the "list": portion of the settings.json file:

Open settings.json in Windows Terminal sidebar

{
    "$schema": "https://aka.ms/terminal-profiles-schema",

    "defaultProfile": "{00000000-0000-0000-ba54-000000000001}",

    "profiles":
    {
        "defaults":
        {
            // Put settings here that you want to apply to all profiles
        },
        "list":
        [
            <put one of the configuration below right here>
        ]
    }
}

Profile options

Uncomment correct paths for commandline and icon if you are using:

  • Git for Windows in %PROGRAMFILES%
  • Git for Windows in %USERPROFILE%
  • If you’re using scoop
{
    "guid": "{00000000-0000-0000-ba54-000000000002}",
    "commandline": "%PROGRAMFILES%/Git/usr/bin/bash.exe -i -l",
    // "commandline": "%USERPROFILE%/AppData/Local/Programs/Git/bin/bash.exe -l -i",
    // "commandline": "%USERPROFILE%/scoop/apps/git/current/usr/bin/bash.exe -l -i",
    "icon": "%PROGRAMFILES%/Git/mingw64/share/git/git-for-windows.ico",
    // "icon": "%USERPROFILE%/AppData/Local/Programs/Git/mingw64/share/git/git-for-windows.ico",
    // "icon": "%USERPROFILE%/apps/git/current/usr/share/git/git-for-windows.ico",
    "name" : "Bash",
    "startingDirectory" : "%USERPROFILE%"
},

You can also add other options like:

{
    "guid": "{00000000-0000-0000-ba54-000000000002}",
    // ...
    "acrylicOpacity" : 0.75,
    "closeOnExit" : true,
    "colorScheme" : "Campbell",
    "cursorColor" : "#FFFFFF",
    "cursorShape" : "bar",
    "fontFace" : "Consolas",
    "fontSize" : 10,
    "historySize" : 9001,
    "padding" : "0, 0, 0, 0",
    "snapOnInput" : true,
    "useAcrylic" : true
}

Notes

  • make your own guid as of https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/pull/2475 this is no longer generated.
  • the guid can be used in in the globals > defaultProfile so you can press you can press CtrlShiftT
    or start a Windows terminal and it will start up bash by default
"defaultProfile" : "{00000000-0000-0000-ba54-000000000001}",
  • -l -i to make sure that .bash_profile gets loaded
  • use environment variables so they can map to different systems correctly.
  • target git/bin/bash.exe to avoid spawning off additional processes which saves about 10MB per process according to Process Explorer compared to using bin/bash or git-bash

I have my configuration that uses Scoop in https://gist.github.com/trajano/24f4edccd9a997fad8b4de29ea252cc8

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