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title: Git Bash undocumented command line
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git-bash is a `mintty.exe` wrapper and bash wrapper – it winds up invoking
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other processes that do the actual work. While git-bash.exe is undocumented, `mintty.exe` and [`bash.exe`](https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bash.html) [are documented](http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/).
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`git-bash.exe` sets up the environment in windows for `bash.exe`, then launches the bash shell
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Example Windows shortcut to bash script: `/x/src/wallet/docs/mkdocs.sh`
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"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
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Notice that the paths to the left of the invocation of `bash` are in Windows
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format, and the paths to the right of the invocation of bash are in gnu
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format.
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Albeit this way of executing a bash script in windows is too clever by half,
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since you should be able to execute it just by clicking on it.
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`--cd=D:\src`
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Sets the initial working directory to `/d/src` (windows path, launches bash
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with the corresponding gnu path)
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`--no-cd`
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does not set working directory.
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`--cd-to-home`
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Sets the working directory to home.
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`--command=`command-line
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Executes `<command-line>` instead of the embedded string resource.
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`--minimal-search-path`
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Ensures that only `/cmd/` is added to the `PATH` instead of `/mingw??/bin` and `/usr/bin/`
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`--no-minimal-search-path`
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Normal search path
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`--needs-console`
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Ensures that there is a Win32 console associated with the spawned process
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`--no-needs-console`
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Fails to ensure that there is a Win32 console
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`--hide`
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Hides the console window. This makes sense if you are launching a script and
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not expecting any feedback. But it means that the script has no means to
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give you an error message.
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`--no-hide`
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Does not hide the console window.
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