Git Bash undocumented command line

git-bash is a mintty.exe wrapper and bash wrapper – it winds up invoking other processes that do the actual work. While git-bash.exe is undocumented, mintty.exe and bash.exe are documented.

git-bash.exe sets up the environment in windows for bash.exe, then launches the bash shell

Example Windows shortcut to bash script: /x/src/wallet/docs/mkdocs.sh

"C:\Program Files\Git\git-bash.exe" --cd=X:\src\wallet --needs-console --no-hide --command=usr\bin\bash.exe --login -i docs/mkdocs.sh

Notice that the paths to the left of the invocation of bash are in Windows format, and the paths to the right of the invocation of bash are in gnu format.

Albeit this way of executing a bash script in windows is too clever by half, since you should be able to execute it just by clicking on it.

--cd=D:\src Sets the initial working directory to /d/src (windows path, launches bash with the corresponding gnu path)

--no-cd does not set working directory.

--cd-to-home Sets the working directory to home.

--command=command-line Executes <command-line> instead of the embedded string resource.

--minimal-search-path Ensures that only /cmd/ is added to the PATH instead of /mingw??/bin and /usr/bin/

--no-minimal-search-path Normal search path

--needs-console Ensures that there is a Win32 console associated with the spawned process

--no-needs-console Fails to ensure that there is a Win32 console

--hide Hides the console window. This makes sense if you are launching a script and not expecting any feedback. But it means that the script has no means to give you an error message.

--no-hide Does not hide the console window.

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