How To Launch Git Bash from Windows Command Line?

Question

If you want to launch from a batch file:

• for x86

  start "" "%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\sh.exe" --login
  

• for x64

  start "" "%PROGRAMFILES%\Git\bin\sh.exe" --login
  

I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "full Git Bash environment", but I get the nice prompt if I do

"C:\Program Files\Git\bin\sh.exe" --login

In PowerShell

& 'C:\Program Files\Git\bin\sh.exe' --login

The --login switch makes the shell execute the login shell startup files.

I prefer to use git-bash.exe instead of sh.exe.

start "" "%ProgramFiles%\Git\git-bash.exe" -c "tail -f /c/Windows/win.ini"

You can stop closing the window when call /usr/bin/bash --login -i in the end;

start "" "%ProgramFiles%\Git\git-bash.exe" -c "echo 1 && echo 2 && /usr/bin/bash --login -i"

Note: I'm not sure this is a good way :)

I prefer, putting git in environment variable and just calling

c:\Users\[myname]>sh
or 
c:\Users\[myname]>bash

Steps to create Environment variable (Win7)

• From the desktop, right click the Computer icon.
• Choose Properties from the context menu.
• Click the Advanced system settings link.
• Click Environment Variables.

• In the section User variables, hit button NEW, put variable name as GIT_HOME, value as (folder-where-you-installed-git).

  • for me it is was c:\tools\git, others maybe have C:\Program Files\Git

• find the PATH environment variable and select it. Click Edit. (If the PATH environment variable does not exist, click New).

• In the Edit window, add a new value %GIT_HOME% and %GIT_HOME%\bin. Click OK. Close all remaining windows by clicking OK.
• [Make sure you close the CMD which you want use for git]
• open new Command prompt, and just type sh or bash or git-bash

start "" "%SYSTEMDRIVE%\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\sh.exe" --login -i

Git bash will get open.