Windows – How to find out the command line options for git-bash.exe

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Apparently my google-fu sucks…

I know these from other StackExchange posts:

--cd-to-home    # Change directory to home
--cd=<path>     # Change directory to <path>
-i              # ?
-c              # Run command, but --command doesn't work/exist

Where can I find a complete list of options for git-bash.exe (the therminal emulator)? I found them for mintty [1], but they don't seem to be the correct ones for git-bash.exe…

Update:

So git-bash.exe just seems to be a simple wrapper that first parses the --cd... options and then runs

usr\bin\mintty.exe --icon git-bash.exe,0 --exec "/usr/bin/bash" --login -i <other arguments>

or similar. That's why only --cd.. and bash options are parsed correctly and not mintty.

If you want to use other options from mintty, you should use a similar command instead of trying to do it with git-bash.exe. E.g.: 

usr\bin\mintty.exe --icon git-bash.exe,0 --window full --exec "/usr/bin/bash" --login -i -c "echo 'Hello World!'; read"

Best Answer

Correct there isn't a list of command line options help for git-bash.exe. I spend some time looking for them myself and there isn't any proper documentation on it. It appears to be a wrapper for bin/sh.exe. If you really need to do more then I recommend looking at the help info for sh.exe instead.

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