Adding Git-Bash to the new Windows Terminal

Question

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?

Answer 1

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:

{
    "$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%/scoop/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

Answer 2

There are below things to do.

1. Make sure the git command runs successfully in Command Prompt.

That means you need to add git to path when install git or add it to system environment later.

2. Update the file profile.json: open Settings by pressing Ctrl+, in Windows Terminal, click on Open JSON file in the sidebar, and add following snippet inside the word profiles:

        { 
            "tabTitle": "Git Bash",
            "acrylicOpacity" : 0.75, 
            "closeOnExit" : true, 
            "colorScheme" : "Campbell", 
            "commandline" : "C:/Program Files/Git/bin/bash.exe --login", 
            "cursorColor" : "#FFFFFF", 
            "cursorShape" : "bar", 
            "fontFace" : "Consolas", 
            "fontSize" : 12, 
            "guid" : "{14ad203f-52cc-4110-90d6-d96e0f41b64d}", 
            "historySize" : 9001, 
            "icon": "ms-appdata:///roaming/git-bash_32px.ico",
            "name" : "Git Bash", 
            "padding" : "0, 0, 0, 0", 
            "snapOnInput" : true, 
            "useAcrylic" : true 
        }

The icon can be obtained here: git-bash_32px.ico

You can add icons for Tab to this location:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\packages\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_8wekyb3d8bbwe\RoamingState

Put 32x32 PNG/icons in this folder, and then in profile.json you can reference the image resource with the path starting with ms-appdata://.

Note that, please make sure the Guidis correct and it matches the corresponding correct configurations.

3. Test that git bash works in Windows Terminal.

The final result is below:

Answer 3

This is the complete answer (GitBash + color scheme + icon + context menu)

1. Set default profile:

"globals": 
{
    "defaultProfile" : "{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001}",
    ...

2. Add GitBash profile

"profiles": [
    {
        "guid": "{00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001}",
        "acrylicOpacity": 0.75,
        "closeOnExit": true,
        "colorScheme": "GitBash",
        "commandline": "\"%PROGRAMFILES%\\Git\\usr\\bin\\bash.exe\" --login -i",
        "cursorColor": "#FFFFFF",
        "cursorShape": "bar",
        "fontFace": "Consolas",
        "fontSize": 10,
        "historySize": 9001,
        "icon": "%PROGRAMFILES%\\Git\\mingw64\\share\\git\\git-for-windows.ico",
        "name": "GitBash",
        "padding": "0, 0, 0, 0",
        "snapOnInput": true,
        "startingDirectory": "%USERPROFILE%",
        "useAcrylic": false
    }
]

3. Add GitBash color scheme

  "schemes": [
      {
          "background": "#000000",
          "black": "#0C0C0C",
          "blue": "#6060ff",
          "brightBlack": "#767676",
          "brightBlue": "#3B78FF",
          "brightCyan": "#61D6D6",
          "brightGreen": "#16C60C",
          "brightPurple": "#B4009E",
          "brightRed": "#E74856",
          "brightWhite": "#F2F2F2",
          "brightYellow": "#F9F1A5",
          "cyan": "#3A96DD",
          "foreground": "#bfbfbf",
          "green": "#00a400",
          "name": "GitBash",
          "purple": "#bf00bf",
          "red": "#bf0000",
          "white": "#ffffff",
          "yellow": "#bfbf00",
          "grey": "#bfbfbf"
      }
  ]

4. To add a right-click context menu "Windows Terminal Here"

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\wt]
@="Windows terminal here"
"Icon"="C:\\Users\\{YOUR_WINDOWS_USERNAME}\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\WindowsApps\\{YOUR_ICONS_FOLDER}\\icon.ico"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Directory\Background\shell\wt\command]
@="\"C:\\Users\\{YOUR_WINDOWS_USERNAME}\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\WindowsApps\\wt.exe\""

• Replace {YOUR_WINDOWS_USERNAME} with your Windows username.
• Create an icon folder, put the icon there and replace {YOUR_ICONS_FOLDER} with your icon folder.
• Save this in a .reg file and run it.