Comments on: Git for Windows, Changing Directories, part 2

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By: Bla

Bla — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:16:00 +0000

And I wouldn’t use cat” as an alias since it would hide the normal cat command. This is quite useful because it reads files and displays them. try ‘cat .bash_profile’

And one more thing, the git bash is unix like supporting the tab key for autocompletion. if you would like to add a file named “Gulli.txt” just type

git add G
and it will autocomplete the name or show you the possible choices. This also works for all git commands. Examples:

git stat
git com
git branch and it will display all possible branches

By: Bla

Bla — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:11:00 +0000

source .bash_profile

By: kyletcarlson

kyletcarlson — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 21:42:00 +0000

Thanks for that tip! I spent 30 minutes following the tutorial and couldn’t get his suggestion to work. 15 Seconds on that screen fixed it!

By: Shahbaz

Shahbaz — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 16:03:00 +0000

Just a quick hint, if you click properties on the shortcut to your git bash, there is a “Start in” option that is set to %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%. You can change it to your repo directory. If you want to do it for multiple repos, simply create multiple shortcuts

By: daleV

daleV — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 13:57:00 +0000

Thanks, Rich.

By: Rich C

Rich C — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 03:32:00 +0000

You don’t need to close & restart the terminal window.
just type
‘source .bashprofile’
while you’re still in the home directory. Then your new aliases will be available.

By: Brmeena

Brmeena — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 07:28:00 +0000

it was really useful to configure alias on git window.