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vestland
vestland

Reputation: 61104

Very basic git batch in Windows 7

Synopsis

Pass arguments to git bash using a .bat file

OR

Use git some other way by running a batch file.

Disclaimer

There are a lot of answers to similar questions out there, but having tried and failed most or all of them, I hope you don't smack me with a DUPLICATE stamp at first sight.

My system

Windows 7, 64 bit

git version 1.9.4.msysgit.2

The challenge

I want to rationalize my workflow from navigating to a number of git repos and running git status, git add --all etc, to simply run a batch.

Other posts certainly suggests it's possible. I think most of them use Unix, but this one at least got me up and running on Windows so I could test it out. However, I'm having the same problems as OP in that post when it comes to passing the commands to the git bash, and to a complete beginner like me it seems a bit complicated to use the suggestions from @Erik further down in the same post if you want to include more commands in the work flow.

Following the suggestions from @inf3rno in the same post, it seems I'm able to change folders but not able to use git commands like this:

set bash=C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\bash.exe
"%bash%" --login -i -c "exec "%1""
cd c:\repos\research
git status
pause

Does anyone have suggestions as to how I can change the code above to get it working?

And by the way, what's the deal with #!bin\bash from other posts like this one? I assumed I had to use #!Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\bash, but I had no luck with that either...

Anyway, thank you for any suggestions!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 276

Answers (1)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1323115

First, uninstall git 1.9.4 (msygit, which is now obsolete): git-for-windows will offer a much recent bash (2013 vs. 2005).

Simply unzip PortableGit-2.6.1-64-bit.7z.exe anywhere you want, add C:\path\PortableGit-2.6.1-64-bit\bin to your %PATH% and you are good to go.

Second, inf3rno's answer is about executing any bash script ("%bash%" --login -i -c "exec "%1"": the %1 is the path/name of the bash script to be executed)

The right shebang to use in your bash scripts would be #!/bin/bash (see "What is the preferred Bash shebang?")

With the latest git 2.6, that would be:

c:\prgs\git\PortableGit-2.6.1-64-bit\bin\bash.exe --login -i -c "exec ./myscript"

Since that folder is supposed to be in your %PATH%:

bash --login -i -c "exec ./myscript"

With myscript being a file using Unix-style eol (LF), not Windows-style (CRLF)

Note also that any bash script (even on Windows) called git-myscript can be directly called with:

git myscript

I described in 2012 another approach in "Running a batch file in git shell" for executing git command.
But for a pure bash script, you will want to go with bash --login -i -c "exec ./myscript".

For writing bash scripts with unix eol style, you can choose various editor from Notepad++, SublimeText 3 or Atom.io.

Upvotes: 3

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