git-for-windows/git-sdk-64

Can we use this version to use another shell in VS Code?

amyspark opened this issue · 4 comments

amyspark commented

Hey,

As I wanted to use the Fish shell in Git Bash, I switched to this SDK version. I cannot find out if there's a helper to set up a MSYS2 shell, like bin/bash.exe in the standard Git for Windows installation.

Another different problem is that there is no way to change the default shell, as git-bash.exe hardcodes the login shell to Bash.

Can you help out with this?

dscho commented

I cannot find out if there's a helper to set up a MSYS2 shell, like bin/bash.exe in the standard Git for Windows installation.

You can use edit-git-bash.exe (in the SDK, call sdk cd build-extra && make edit-git-bash.exe) to edit the resources of git-bash.exe, which is how the installer overrides the command-line e.g. to open a regular Windows Console rather than a MinTTY window. You can use the same to override which shell to run.

amyspark commented

I followed @PhilipOakley 's comment and added --cd-to-home -c fish to my Git Bash shortcuts. To use it with VS Code, I copied the bin/bash.exe executable and added the same.

dscho commented

So can we close this now? It was not a bug report, after all...