How to unzip a file using git bash (Windows)?

Question

Is there a piece of code to unzip a file using git bash on windows? I tried unzipping with this line of code:

unzip somefile.zip

and it returns a

bash: unzip: command not found

Answer 1

Install the latest git (git-bash) from https://git-scm.com/downloads - at the time of writing it is the 2.10.0 version. It comes with unzip packaged inside as one of the tools. Check optional unix tools during setup if you already use gitbash as your go-to console.