Git-bash with vscode

Intro

Git-bash is a Windows application that emulates a Linux shell experience, and comes obviously with git program. In this guide I’ll demonstrate how to modify vscode’s integrated terminal to set git-bash. However, this guide can also be used to set powershell as vscode’s integrated terminal, once vscode comes with cmd.exe by default on Windows.

Guide

1. Install Git/Git Bash in your Windows;

2. Open vscode and click: File > Preferences > Settings;

3. In User Settings tab, select: Features and then Terminal;

4. Search for the section named: Integrated > Shell: Windows and put the full path to git-bash executable, as it follows:

Setting git-bash executable path in vscode integrated terminal

Explaining what vscode does under the hood, if you open settings.json and manually edit it, you’ll see something like the following:

Integrated terminal configuration

By setting this property, next time you open vscode’s integrated terminal, it will run git-bash instead of Windows’s cmd.

To set Powershell as integrated terminal, you just have to set Powershell full path in the same variable.

Hope it helps, see you soon!