Can not activate a virtualenv in GIT bash mingw32 for Windows

Question

Doing Scripts/activate runs the script in a new instance of the shell, which is destroyed after the script execution. To run the script in your current shell, use either . Scripts/activate or source Scripts/activate.

Scripts/activate.bat does not work here because it is written in Batch, Windows cmd.exe language, and not Bash.

On Windows10, you could go in the directory of your virtualenv where the Scripts folder is placed then enter the below command

source ./Scripts/activate

Note the .(dot) without this it was giving error to me when I use it like above mentioned then the solution provided by Pierre worked for me.

How to activate then deactivate a venv with Git Bash

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To access your python in Windows 10, you need to add the .exe when creating the virtual environment.

$ python.exe -m venv Scripts

Then you can move into the Scripts folder you created for the virtual environment.

$ cd Scripts/

Now you have to call on it to activate the virtual environment.

$ source ./Scripts/activate

When you are done you just deactivate the virtual environment.

$ deactivate

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I know there's an answer already on here but I thought I could post my solution for those coming to this post a lot later like me. After installing python 3.8.2 and making sure you selected add python to c drive path on the initial install, do the following...

1. Install virtualenv with pip install virtualenv and then test.

2. Go into your project folder, type pip freeze this will show all the installed packages which may not be wanted for a new project.

3. Type python -m venv ./venv and then cd venv,

4. Type . Scripts/activate. You should now see (venv), which is the name you gave in step 3.

5. cd .. back to the root of your project folder and type pip freeze to check this virtual environment if clear for a new project.

(venv) user@DESKTOP MINGW64 ~/Documents/yourproject