Today you’ll learn how to integrate your git bash straight into your Visual Studio. In the end it’ll looks just like this:
To do that you need open the terminal configuration section in the following tab: Tools => Options => Environment => Terminal.
Then you should click in the Add button and configure its name and the path location pointing to the basn.exe. The most important part here is to add -i -l in the arguments field. These arguments are to set up the git bash to be open embedded.
Usually the bash’s location is similar as C:Program FilesGitgit-bash.exe
Optionally you can set this terminal as default.
The configuration should looks similar as the following image:
Now, to open the terminal go to View => Terminal. If you didn’t set up the git bash as default you’ll need to open it explicitly like this:
Hopefully it’ll be pretty useful to have the power of git bash directly into your VS! Thanks for reading.
