opening sublime text from windows git bash

Question

How do I open Sublime text from Git Bash in Windows? I tried adding the alias at the ~/.bashrc file but nothing worked. I was looking for something very easy but I could not find in the internet.

Answer 1

I am going to answer my own question. First, I created a .bash_profile file under /Users/username directory. I have copied all my git aliases here. To access sublime text I added this alias:

alias subl="/c/Program\ Files/Sublime\ Text\ 2/sublime_text.exe" 

I think the spaces after the backward slashes are important for formatting. If this doesn't work you will have to look where your sublime_text.exe file situated at and put the path after formatting as above. Now in the git bash command line just type

subl .  

to open the current directory in Sublime Text or the name of the file as

subl readme.md 

to open it in Sublime Text. I also added other useful aliases in the .bash_profile file like:

alias gc="git commit -m" alias ga="git add ." alias gl="git log" alias gs="git status" 

So in your git bash command prompt you can simply type

gs ##for git status gl ##for git log, etc 

I hope this will help someone.

Answer 2

Create .bash_profile file under C:\Users\YourUserName\ and add the following line in the file:

alias 'subl="/c/Program Files/Sublime Text 3/subl.exe"'