How do you copy and paste into Git Bash

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I m using msysgit running on Windows XP   Tried Ctrl V  Right click  Middle click  google    no luck

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Get Console2   You configure it to do it multiple different ways   Works with bash or Windows command prompts

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I also go through the same problem  git bash does not support tradition method to copy and paste in windows but you can simply copy and paste in single command   SHIFT fn INSERT

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For paste in Git BASH CTRL   P

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Press Insert   Also  to copy from the window  try clicking the console s window icon  topleft  and choosing Edit -  Mark  then drag a box on the text  then press Enter   You can also paste via the window icon menu  but the key is faster    UPDATE  Starting from Windows 10 the CTRL   C  CTRL   V and a lot of other feature are implemented in conhost exe so they should work with every console utility on Windows   You have to enable Properties -  Option tab -  Quick Edit Mode   Ref  http   blogs windows com buildingapps 2014 10 07 console-improvements-in-the-windows-10-technical-preview

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The way I do this is to hold Alt then press Space  then E and finally P   On Windows Alt jumps to the window menu  Space opens it  E selects Edit and P executes the Paste command   Get these correct in succession and you can paste a snippet in under 2 seconds

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For users working on Windows 7  Shift   INSERT works fine

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COPY Click the title bar  choose mark  then select the content you want to copy  PASTE  Copy what you want to past  focus on the bash  hit the insert key on the keyboard

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Right click on the Git Bash shortcut and switch to the Options tab  Enable Quick Edit Mode and click OK   Now you can use right click to paste into Git Bash  even passwords for remote push  which you can t do with Insert     This also enables copy easily  Just left click and drag in the console window to select any block of text  Now right click on the selection and the text block will be copied in RAM  This is way more easier and intuitive than the other ways   Image source  https   danlimerick wordpress com 2011 07 23 git-for-windows-tip-how-to-copy-and-paste-into-bash

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This is suggested by the github help page   clip  lt  filename   this copies the contents of filename to the clipboard and is useful for doing things like copying your id rsa pub to a web form

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Windows   Right click Choose Options Choose Keys Enable Ctrl Shift letter shortcuts  How does it look like

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Use Shift   Insert like in linux bash  Edit  It works even in putty

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if your intention is copy paste comments for git commits  try set the enviromental variable EDITOR as your favorite plain-text editor  notepad  notepad        and when you will commit  don t give him the -m option and Git will open your favorite editor for copy paste you comment

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Yep  copy from somewhere else using ctrl c and paste using INSERT  Work for me on Window 8

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You can also just right-click in the console window  Be sure  as per earlier answers  to enable both  Edit Options  in the Properties panel  from the System menu

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I m back to Windows for the first time in a long time and this got me cursing like a docker  I finally found this      Enabling Ctrl Shift letter shortcuts got me to a Linux-like behaviour that has lowered my blood pressure  Ctrl Shift C Vnow works

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MacBook pro doesnt have an ins key  Use FN   ENTER to paste

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In the properties of the console you can activate the  Quick Edit Mode  under  Edit Options   that way you can paste inside the console just right clicking  Or you can use  Insert  as they say

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console2   http   sourceforge net projects console    is my go to terminal front end    it add great features like copy paste  resizable windows  and tabs  you can also integrate as many  terminals  as you want into the app  i personally use cmd  the basic windows prompt   mingW msysGit  and i have shortcuts for diving directly into the python and mysql interpreters   the  shell  argument i use for git  on a win7 machine  is   C  Windows SysWOW64 cmd exe  c   C  Program Files  x86  Git bin sh exe  --login -i

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Copy   Long-term solution  Click on Topleft icon   Defaults   Select  QuickEdit Mode  under  Edit Options    Okay  Then select the text you want to copy  Press Enter  Short-term solution  Click on Topleft icon   Edit   Mark  Press Enter     Paste    Press Insert   If the  QuickEdit Mode  is on  Right clicking might work too

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Aside from using the edit menu commands  you can directly paste into the git bash window using the keyboard shortcut  Insert

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Ctrl   insert did it for me in Windows

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I take it you re not on a Mac  Use insert key

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To copy select the text and click CTRL INS  To paste place the cursor where you want to print  and click SHIFT INS  For more options  on the top left click on git-bash icon

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In windows I m not sure about copy but for paste works Ctrl Insert  In Linux copy  CTRL SHIFT C  paste  CTRL SHIFT V

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In windows after this setting you can use ctrl   shift   v   for windows

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I use the mouse    mark right click -  copy right click -  paste

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Here are a lot of answers already but non of them worked for me  Fyi I have a Lenovo laptop with win10 and what works for me is the following     Paste   Shift fn prt sc    Copy   Shift fn c

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on my keyboard insert is located on the same key as a Printscreen  unfortunately  ctrl   ins doesn t work for me   so i descoved the following working combinations for me    FN   CTRL   PRT SC - for copy  FN   SHIFT   PRT SC  - for insert

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I was actually wondering how to do this today   and coincidentally  Phil Haack posted a tip about using posh-git  Git on powershell   which gives you tab auto-complete and a few more cool bits  I m not going back to Git bash   check it out  http   haacked com archive 2011 12 13 better-git-with-powershell aspx

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It s not really a function of git  msys  or bash  every windows console program is stuck using the same cumbersome copy paste mechanism for historical reasons  Turning on QuickEdit mode can help -- or you can install a nice alternative console like this one  and change your git bash shortcut to use it instead

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If you click at the icon on the upper left corner  a drop-down menu will appear  and you can find the option to copy paste from there

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