/git-windows-mintty

An installer to provide a MinTTY context-menu option for Git Bash

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MinTTY for Git for Windows

Free yourself from the cmd.exe console, and enjoy a modern terminal emulator.

Download

Download from the GitHub page above by clicking "Downloads", or follow this direct link to the MinTTY for Git for Windows download page.

About

Adds a context menu (right-click) item to folders for "Git Bash Here (MinTTY)" which will open your standard Git Bash in the very comfortable MinTTY console instead of the painful Windows one. Uninstall will similarly remove the entry, keeping things nice and tidy.

Includes MinTTY 1.1.3, MSYS version.

For a useful quick summary of why MinTTY is cool, see http://chadaustin.me/2009/10/reasons-why-mintty-is-the-best-terminal-on-windows/

This package is mostly just a nice installer around MinTTY, a Windows Scripting Host script to tidily perform the appropriate launching, and the registry entries needed to add a context menu item. It must be installed to the same place as Git, and you must already have Git for Windows installed.

Building

You can get the precompiled binary installer from the downloads page. However if you want to build the installer from source:

  • Install Inno Setup
  • Right-click setup.iss and select Compile
  • The installer is created in the Output directory

Known Issues with mintty

  • fail to load vi/vim and nano editor (issue #5)

Changelog

Version 1.3 - 10 June 2014

add .inputrc & .bashrc files

Version 1.2.2014-busaway.1 - 9 June 2014

change version number for release the installer

Version 1.2 - 20 June 2013

Updated MinTTY to v1.1.3. See MinTTY changelog for details.

Version 1.1 - 17 May 2012

Bug-fix release: launch using the right Windows Scripting Host executable to avoid this bug plaguing Git for Windows that causes problems only on Windows XP x64 and Server 2003 x64. Yes, this means that not only is this a nicer terminal to use, it's also a workaround for a bothersome bug!

Version 1.0 - 17 May 2012

Initial release.

Credits

See licenses.txt for full license info on bundled files.