How to add a open git-bash here context menu to the windows explorer

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How to add a context  aka right click  menu to the windows explorer that  when clicked  opens the git-bash console in the current explorer folder

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Add the gitpath to the Environment-path variable  e g  C  Program Files Git cmd  by which you can access git from any folder using command line

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When you install git-scm found in  quot https   git-scm com downloads quot  uncheck the  quot Only show new options quot  located at the very bottom of the installation window Make sure you check  Windows Explorer integration  Git Bash Here Git GUI Here    Click Next and you re good to go

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Had a similar issue in adding  Start Command Prompt with Ruby  to context menu as it involves passing parameters along with the patch of cmd  Followed a similar procedure as the solution above  Windows Registry Editor Version 5 00    HKEY CLASSES ROOT   shell Cmd With Ruby       Cmd With Ruby     Icon   C   Windows  System32  cmd exe    HKEY CLASSES ROOT   shell Cmd With Ruby command       C   Windows  System32  cmd exe      E ON  K   C   Ruby25-x64  bin  setrbvars cmd       --cd  1         HKEY CLASSES ROOT Directory shell bash       Cmd With Ruby     Icon   C   Windows  System32  cmd exe     HKEY CLASSES ROOT Directory shell bash command       C   Windows  System32  cmd exe      E ON  K   C   Ruby25-x64  bin  setrbvars cmd       --cd  1         HKEY CLASSES ROOT Directory Background shell bash       Cmd With Ruby     Icon   C   Windows  System32  cmd exe     HKEY CLASSES ROOT Directory Background shell bash command       C   Windows  System32  cmd exe      E ON  K   C   Ruby25-x64  bin  setrbvars cmd       --cd  v

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You can install git for windows or Github for windows   both give you the choice while installing to add this feature to your windows explorer  You can find it here   Github for Windows  https   windows github com   Git for Windows  http   git-scm com

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I have already too many programs that want a spot on my PATH list  Rather than pollute my PATH list  I choose instead to add a symbolic link  from an elevated command prompt  like so  mklink C  bin git-bash exe  quot C  Program Files Git git-bash exe quot   While there are exceptions  this works in the majority of cases  including  among others  the 7-zip CLI  selected SysInternals command line tools  the NuGet CLI  and many others  As a bonus  having the Git Bash command line interface so readily accessible makes activating it from an open command prompt window trivial  With this improvement  I can probably live without yet another item on my context menu for directories

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Here are the Registry exports    reg files  for Git GUI and Git Bash directly from the Windows installer    Git GUI   Windows Registry Editor Version 5 00   HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Classes Directory background shell git gui     Git  amp GUI Here   Icon   C   Program Files  Git  cmd  git-gui exe    HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Classes Directory background shell git gui command       C   Program Files  Git  cmd  git-gui exe     --working-dir      v       Git bash   Windows Registry Editor Version 5 00   HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Classes Directory background shell git shell     Git Ba amp sh Here   Icon   C   Program Files  Git  git-bash exe    HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Classes Directory background shell git shell command       C   Program Files  Git  git-bash exe     --cd  v       For detail about   reg files  see    How to add  modify  or delete registry subkeys and values by using a  reg file    from Microsoft

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You can install TortoiseGit for Windows and include integration in context menu   I consider it the best tool to work with Git on Windows

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Step 1  On your desktop right click  New -  Text Document  with name OpenGitBash reg  Step 2  Right click the file and choose  Edit   Step 3  Copy-paste the code below  save and close the file  Step 4  Execute the file by double clicking it  Note  You need administrator permission to write to the registry   Windows Registry Editor Version 5 00   Open files   Default Git-Bash Location C  Program Files Git git-bash exe   HKEY CLASSES ROOT   shell Open Git Bash     Open Git Bash   Icon   C   Program Files  Git  git-bash exe    HKEY CLASSES ROOT   shell Open Git Bash command       C   Program Files  Git  git-bash exe     --cd  1       This will make it appear when you right click ON a folder   The  Icon  line can be removed if you don t want the icon to appear   HKEY CLASSES ROOT Directory shell bash     Open Git Bash   Icon   C   Program Files  Git  git-bash exe     HKEY CLASSES ROOT Directory shell bash command       C   Program Files  Git  git-bash exe     --cd  1       This will make it appear when you right click INSIDE a folder   The  Icon  line can be removed if you don t want the icon to appear   HKEY CLASSES ROOT Directory Background shell bash     Open Git Bash   Icon   C   Program Files  Git  git-bash exe    HKEY CLASSES ROOT Directory Background shell bash command       C   Program Files  Git  git-bash exe     --cd  v       And here is your result

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I updated my git and I marked the option of  Git Bash Here

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What worked for me was almost this  but with the following REGEDIT path  HKEY LOCAL MACHINE SOFTWARE Classes Directory background shell and here I created the key Bash  with the value of what I want the display name to be  and then created another key under this named command with the value as the path to git-bash exe    I m on Windows 10 and have a fresh git install that didn t add this automatically for some reason  git version 2 12 0 64bit

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I had a similar issue and I did this   Step 1   Type  regedit  in start menu  Step 2   Run the registry editor  Step 3   Navigate to HKEY CURRENT USER SOFTWARE Classes Directory Background shell  Step 4   Right-click on  shell  and choose New   Key  name the Key  Bash     Step 5   Modify the value and set it to  open in Bash  This is the text that appears in the right click       Step 6   Create a new key under Bash and name it  command   Set the value of this key to your git-bash exe path         Close the registry editor   You should now be able to see the option in right click menu in explorer  PS Git Bash by default picks up the current directory   EDIT    If you want a one click approach  check Ozesh s solution below

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As   Shaswat Rungta said   I think the question is more about how to add it after the installation is over    On my PC Windows 7  I think that the command  Git Bash here  disappeard after I installed Visual Studio 2017   I fixt this by downloading and installing Git again   NOTE   When installing Git for Windows the context menu options are not  on  by default  You will have to select them during the install        nbushnell  I did this

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The easiest way is to install the latest Git from here  And while installing  make sure you are enabling the option Windows Explorer Integration     Once you are done  you will get those options in whenever you right click on any folder      Hope it helps

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Usually git bash here can be run only on directories so you have to go up a directory and right click on the previous directory then select git bash here  of course on Windows OS   Note  context menu inside a directory does not have a git bash here option

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