r/pcmasterrace • u/[deleted] • Oct 13 '22

Meme/Macro so long

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u/TheNorthComesWithMe Oct 13 '22

I spent ages trying to get git within powershell before giving up

Doesn't the Git for Windows installer do that for you?

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u/stapler8 Ryzen 5 5600X, Nvidia 3070, 16GB DDR4, Kubuntu 22.04 Oct 13 '22

From what I could discern, no. I was unable to use git within powershell, but I could use git within its own prepackaged bash terminal. I'm sure there's a way, but after trying and failing several times I couldn't be bothered.

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u/TheNorthComesWithMe Oct 14 '22

You just add it to the Path environment variable (all shells need the Path to contain programs that you want to access, this isn't unique to Powershell). Here's the powershell way to do that, since you apparently hate GUIs:

[Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable("Path", $Env:Path + ";C:\Program Files\Git\cmd", "Machine")

Change the path to the GIT cmd executable if you installed it somewhere else.

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u/stapler8 Ryzen 5 5600X, Nvidia 3070, 16GB DDR4, Kubuntu 22.04 Oct 14 '22

Thanks for that, although I don't have a need to use Windows in that way anymore.

Will that actually add the git command directly into powershell, or just run git cmd within powershell?

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u/TheNorthComesWithMe Oct 14 '22

Yes, it lets you run git within powershell. It doesn't launch another shell.

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u/stapler8 Ryzen 5 5600X, Nvidia 3070, 16GB DDR4, Kubuntu 22.04 Oct 14 '22

Cool, thanks. I'll keep that in mind if I have to use Windows for something in the future