Git-Bash in Windows Terminal

Windows Terminal is a nice console for Windows. With the latest version of it a prior or subsequent install of Git for Windows does does not show up among the available terminals, so if you want it you'll need to add it manually.

NOTE: The latest versions of Windows Terminal allow you to create and edit profiles in Settings. Use the paths for bash.exe and git-for-windows.ico below and it will work as advertised (don't just copy and paste: the path separators won't work in the Settings gui if they're escaped). Apart from being able to set things up visually, a big advantage of the new method is that you don't have to make up a guid :-)

To add Git-Bash to Windows Terminal, open the Windows Terminal Settings and paste in block of profile code:

{
    //Git-Bash profile
    "guid": "{4ce70db7-3214-4d5e-bace-dbebe0a7b49d}",
    "hidden": false,
    "name": "Git-Bash",
    "commandline": "%PROGRAMFILES%\\Git\\bin\\bash.exe",
    "startingDirectory": "%USERPROFILE%",
    "icon": "%PROGRAMFILES%\\Git\\mingw64\\share\\git\\git-for-windows.ico"
}

Note: Strictly speaking, the "guid" should be generated on the system being configured. You can use the New-Guid PowerShell (version 7) utility to do that. The guid is important as each profile needs a unique one to function. Also, the default terminal is specified by its guid.

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Git-Bash in Windows Terminal