Set up git bash to work with tabs on windows

I've got this working with ConEmu instead.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/conemu/

  1. Install Git Bash
  2. Install ConEmu
  3. Open ConEmu, in settings (top right corner), click "settings"
  4. In the settings tree, open "startup", then "tasks"
  5. Add a new task, or edit one of the existing ones
    • click on the "tab" button in second row from bottom
    • in the first box, enter "[git directory]\bin\sh.exe --login -s"
    • in the second box, enter your preferred startup directory
    • save
    • now assign a hotkey (top right corner) (I have mine on ctrl+T)
  6. You're done! Now you have a multitabbed console in windows, where you can create any number of Git Bash windows via a hotkey.

This config works for me in Console2:

Title: Git Bash
Icon: C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\etc\git.ico
Shell: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\cmd.exe /c ""C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\bin\sh.exe" --login -i"
Startup dir: the path to your git repo

Console2 settings Git Bash


  1. Install Git Bash -> Git for Windows v2.9.3
  2. Install ConEMU Version 10.0.17134.48 -->https://conemu.github.io/en/Downloads.html
  3. ConEMU latest version comes preconfigured with gitbash and windows cmd. No settings are required to be done
  4. Open ConEMU
  5. Open windows cmd with new console dialog option -> {Shells::cmd} in ConEMU
  6. Open git bash with new console dialog option -> {Bash::Git bash} in ConEMU

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