Adding Git-Bash to the new Windows Terminal

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I m trying to add a new terminal  Git Bash  to the new Windows Terminal  however I can t get it to work   I tried changing the commandline property in the profiles array to git-bash exe but no luck   Does anyone have an idea how to get this to work

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Another item to note - in settings json I discovered if you don t use  commandline    C  Program Files Git bin bash exe   and instead use   commandline    C  Program Files Git git-bash exe   the Git shell will open up in an independent window outside of Windows Terminal instead of on a tab - which is not the desired behavior  In addition  the tab in Windows Terminal that opens will also need to be closed manually as it will display process exited information -  process exited with code 3221225786  etc   Might save someone some headache

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Overview  Open settings with ctrl     You ll want to append one of the profiles options below  depending on what version of git you have installed  to the  quot list quot   portion of the settings json file         quot  schema quot    quot https   aka ms terminal-profiles-schema quot         quot defaultProfile quot    quot  00000000-0000-0000-ba54-000000000001  quot         quot profiles quot                  quot defaults quot                            Put settings here that you want to apply to all profiles                     quot list quot                          lt put one of the configuration below right here gt                     Profile options Uncomment correct paths for commandline and icon if you are using   Git for Windows in  PROGRAMFILE  Git for Windows in  USERPROFILE  If you re using scoop         quot guid quot    quot  00000000-0000-0000-ba54-000000000002  quot        quot commandline quot    quot  PROGRAMFILES  git usr bin bash exe -i -l quot           quot commandline quot    quot  USERPROFILE  AppData Local Programs Git bin bash exe -l -i quot           quot commandline quot    quot  USERPROFILE  scoop apps git current usr bin bash exe -l -i quot        quot icon quot    quot  PROGRAMFILES  Git mingw64 share git git-for-windows ico quot           quot icon quot    quot  USERPROFILE  AppData Local Programs Git mingw64 share git git-for-windows ico quot           quot icon quot    quot  USERPROFILE  apps git current usr share git git-for-windows ico quot        quot name quot     quot Bash quot        quot startingDirectory quot     quot  USERPROFILE  quot        You can also add other options like         quot guid quot    quot  00000000-0000-0000-ba54-000000000002  quot                   quot acrylicOpacity quot    0 75       quot closeOnExit quot    true       quot colorScheme quot     quot Campbell quot        quot cursorColor quot     quot  FFFFFF quot        quot cursorShape quot     quot bar quot        quot fontFace quot     quot Consolas quot        quot fontSize quot    10       quot historySize quot    9001       quot padding quot     quot 0  0  0  0 quot        quot snapOnInput quot    true       quot useAcrylic quot    true    Notes  make your own guid as of https   github com microsoft terminal pull 2475 this is no longer generated  the guid can be used in in the globals  gt  defaultProfile so you can press you can press CtrlShiftT or start a Windows terminal and it will start up bash by default   quot defaultProfile quot     quot  00000000-0000-0000-ba54-000000000001  quot     -l -i to make sure that  bash profile gets loaded use environment variables so they can map to different systems correctly  target git bin bash exe to avoid spawning off additional processes which saves about 10MB per process according to Process Explorer compared to using bin bash or git-bash  I have my configuration that uses Scoop in https   gist github com trajano 24f4edccd9a997fad8b4de29ea252cc8

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This is the complete answer  GitBash   color scheme   icon   context menu   1  Set default profile    globals            defaultProfile      00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001              2  Add GitBash profile   profiles                      guid     00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000001             acrylicOpacity    0 75           closeOnExit    true           colorScheme     GitBash            commandline        PROGRAMFILES   Git  usr  bin  bash exe   --login -i -l            cursorColor      FFFFFF            cursorShape     bar            fontFace     Consolas            fontSize    10           historySize    9001           icon      PROGRAMFILES   Git  mingw64  share  git  git-for-windows ico             name     GitBash            padding     0  0  0  0            snapOnInput    true           startingDirectory      USERPROFILE             useAcrylic    false                  3  Add GitBash color scheme   schemes                      background      000000            black      0C0C0C            blue      6060ff            brightBlack      767676            brightBlue      3B78FF            brightCyan      61D6D6            brightGreen      16C60C            brightPurple      B4009E            brightRed      E74856            brightWhite      F2F2F2            brightYellow      F9F1A5            cyan      3A96DD            foreground      bfbfbf            green      00a400            name     GitBash            purple      bf00bf            red      bf0000            white      ffffff            yellow      bfbf00            grey      bfbfbf             4  To add a right-click context menu  Windows Terminal Here   Windows Registry Editor Version 5 00   HKEY CLASSES ROOT Directory Background shell wt     Windows terminal here   Icon   C   Users   YOUR WINDOWS USERNAME   AppData  Local  Microsoft  WindowsApps   YOUR ICONS FOLDER   icon ico    HKEY CLASSES ROOT Directory Background shell wt command       C   Users   YOUR WINDOWS USERNAME   AppData  Local  Microsoft  WindowsApps  wt exe       replace  YOUR WINDOWS USERNAME  create icon folder  put the icon there and replace  YOUR ICONS FOLDER  save this in a whatever filename reg file and run it

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I did as follows    Add   programfiles  Git Bin  to your PATH On the profiles json  set the desired command-line as  commandline     sh --cd-to-home  Restart the Windows Terminal   It worked for me

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Change the profiles parameter to  commandline     PROGRAMFILES   Git  bin  bash exe -l -i   This works for me and allows for my  bash profile alias autocomplete scripts to run

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Because most answers either show a lot of unrelated configuration or don't show the configuration, I created my own answer that tries to be more focused. It is mainly based on the profile settings reference and Archimedes Trajano's answer.

Steps

Open PowerShell and enter [guid]::NewGuid() to generate a new GUID. We will use it at step 3.
```
> [guid]::NewGuid()

Guid
----
a3da8d92-2f3f-4e36-9714-98876b6cb480
```
Open the settings of Windows Terminal. (CTRL+,)

Add the following JSON object to profiles.list. Replace guid with the one you generated at step 1.

{
  "guid": "{a3da8d92-2f3f-4e36-9714-98876b6cb480}",
  "name": "Git Bash",
  "commandline": "\"%PROGRAMFILES%\\Git\\usr\\bin\\bash.exe\" -i -l",
  "icon": "%PROGRAMFILES%\\Git\\mingw64\\share\\git\\git-for-windows.ico",
  "startingDirectory" : "%USERPROFILE%"
},

Notes

There is currently an issue that you cannot use your arrow keys (and some other keys). It seems to work with the latest preview version, though. (issue #6859)
Specifying "startingDirectory" : "%USERPROFILE%" shouldn't be necessary according to the reference. However, if I don't specify it, the starting directory was different depending on how I started the terminal initially.
Settings that shall apply to all terminals can be specified in profiles.defaults.
I recommend to set "antialiasingMode": "cleartype" in profiles.defaults. You have to remove "useAcrylic" (if you have added it as suggested by some other answers) to make it work. It improves the quality of text rendering. However, you cannot have transparent background without useAcrylic. See issue #1298.
If you have problems with the cursor, you can try another shape like "cursorShape": "filledBox". See cursor settings for more information.

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That s how I ve added mine in profiles json table         quot guid quot    quot  00000000-0000-0000-ba54-000000000002  quot        quot name quot    quot Git quot        quot commandline quot    quot C  Program Files Git bin bash exe --login quot        quot icon quot    quot  PROGRAMFILES  Git mingw64 share git git-for-windows ico quot        quot startingDirectory quot    quot  USERPROFILE  quot        quot hidden quot   false

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There are below things to do    Make sure your git command can be run successfully in CMD   That means you need to add git to path when install git or add it to system environment later      Update the config file profile json   Open Settings  add following snippet inside the word profiles                           tabTitle    Git Bash                acrylicOpacity    0 75                closeOnExit    true                colorScheme     Campbell                 commandline     C  Program Files Git bin bash exe --login                 cursorColor      FFFFFF                 cursorShape     bar                 fontFace     Consolas                 fontSize    12                guid      14ad203f-52cc-4110-90d6-d96e0f41b64d                  historySize    9001                icon    ms-appdata    roaming git-bash 32px ico                name     Git Bash                 padding     0  0  0  0                 snapOnInput    true                useAcrylic    true              The icon can be obtained here  git-bash 32px ico  You can add icons for Tab to this location    LOCALAPPDATA  packages Microsoft WindowsTerminal 8wekyb3d8bbwe RoamingState  Put 32x32 PNG icons in this folder  and then in profile json you can reference the image resource with the path starting with ms-appdata       Note that  please make sure the Guidis correct and it matches the corresponding correct configs    Test git bash works well in Windows Terminal   The final result is below

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Adding   PROGRAMFILES   Git  bin  bash exe -l -i  doesn t work for me  Because of space symbol  which is separator in cmd  in  PROGRAMFILES  terminal executes command  C  Program  instead of  C  Program Files Git bin bash exe -l -i   The solution should be something like adding quotation marks in json file  but I didn t figure out how   The only solution is to add  C  Program Files Git bin  to  PATH  and write  commandline    bash exe  in profiles json

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If you want to display an icon and are using a dark theme. Which means the icon provided above doesn't look that great. Then you can find the icon here

C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\share\git\git-for-windows I copied it into.

%LOCALAPPDATA%\packages\Microsoft.WindowsTerminal_8wekyb3d8bbwe\RoamingState

and named it git-bash_32px as suggested above.

Control the opacity with CTRL + SHIFT + scrolling.

        {
            "acrylicOpacity" : 0.75,
            "closeOnExit" : true,
            "colorScheme" : "Campbell",
            "commandline" : "\"%PROGRAMFILES%\\git\\usr\\bin\\bash.exe\" -i -l",
            "cursorColor" : "#FFFFFF",
            "cursorShape" : "bar",
            "fontFace" : "Consolas",
            "fontSize" : 10,
            "guid" : "{73225108-7633-47ae-80c1-5d00111ef646}",
            "historySize" : 9001,
            "icon" : "ms-appdata:///roaming/git-bash_32px.ico",
            "name" : "Bash",
            "padding" : "0, 0, 0, 0",
            "snapOnInput" : true,
            "startingDirectory" : "%USERPROFILE%",
            "useAcrylic" : true
        },

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