Skip to content

gitbash is now autodetected (change faq) #2705

New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

Sign up for GitHub

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Merged
sawka merged 1 commit into from
Dec 20, 2025
Merged

gitbash is now autodetected (change faq) #2705

Changes from all commits
Commits
Show all changes
1 commit
Select commit
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension
Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
4 changes: 3 additions & 1 deletion docs/docs/faq.mdx
View file
Open in desktop
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -19,7 +19,9 @@ and type the `[user]@[host]` that you wish to connect to.

### On Windows, how can I use Git Bash as my default shell?

In order to make Git Bash your default shell you'll need to set the configuration variable `term:localshellpath` to
Wave automatically detects Git Bash installations and adds them to the connection dropdown. Simply click the <i className="fa-sharp fa-laptop"/> or <i className="fa-sharp fa-arrow-right-arrow-left"/> button in the block header and select "Git Bash" from the list.

Alternatively, you can manually set Git Bash as your default shell by setting the configuration variable `term:localshellpath` to
the location of the Git Bash "bash.exe" binary. By default it is located at "C:\Program Files\Git\bin\bash.exe".
Just remember in JSON, backslashes need to be escaped. So add this to your [settings.json](./config) file:

Expand Down
Loading