How do I open a file in its default program by using the CLI in GitBash on Windows 7?

Question

I'm currently using GitBash on Windows 7 to play around with the command line interface and would be very interested to know how to use GitBash to open a file/document in its default program.

Answer 1

You can use start to open a file using its default application. For example:

start some-image.jpg
start some-document.pdf