Git bash in Windows: change the default directory when opening mintty (pwd)-CodePudding

I am loosing a lot of time searching in internet for the following simple setting.

I installed git (and git bash) in Windows. What I want is just to open Git Bash and be in the directory I want. I don't want to change my home directory, just be in a given directory when I open the program.

More detailed, when I open Mingw / Git bash in Windows, I would like to be in the following folder:

/c/blabla/my_git_repositories

(this corresponds to the windows-style path: C:\blabla\my_git_repositories).

At the moment, I must write the following command every time I open GitBash:

cd /c/blabla/my_git_repositories

is this possible? Which file should i modify? Actually the program is installed here: C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64

Thanks

CodePudding user response：

If you want it happening every time you start an interactive shell, add

cd /c/blabla/my_git_repositories

to your shell startup. If your install includes the manpages say man bash and find the INVOCATION section, in a decent pager just /^INV will do it. Or Google knows to interpret a search for man bash as a search for the bash manpage.

Windows doesn't ordinarily support shell logins at all so a lot of the shell's startup-circumstance detection is overkill on Windows. Executing it is extremely fast, but describing exactly how it decides takes a page or two.

The short form is, if the startup was told it's a login shell it reads the login startup files, including (your) ~/.bash_profile, which generally should check for an interactive login and if so source the normal interactive shell startup ~/.bashrc, so ~/.bash_profile should end with something like

[[ $- = *i* && -f ~/.bashrc ]] && . ~/.bashrc

and put whatever you want in ~/.bashrc. That cd, set up your prompt colors, define your favorite shell aliases, add your personal scripts directory to PATH, whatever.

CodePudding user response：

Partial solution when opening the program by clicking on a link.

Right click on the link → properties → Start in: set the value to "C:\blabla\my_git_repositories".

This will work only when you open the application from that link, but could be fine (depending by your needs).