π Redistribution of Git for Windows's PortableGit
npx -p portablegit git add --all
npx -p portablegit git commit --message "Hello world!"
npx -p portablegit bash -c "grep version package.json"
npx -p portablegit sh ./build.sh
npx -p portablegit git-bash
npx -p portablegit gitk HEAD |
πΆ Use Git for Windows via npm
π¨βπ» Provides bash
via Git Bash
πΎ Uses a portable installation of Git & Bash
π¦ Only works on Windows
π§° Useful when you need a specific Git version
You can install this package using npm or your favorite npm package manager. If possible you should use the user or global Git for Windows installation instead of this package.
npm install --save-dev portablegit
π Only works on Windows x64 systems. Does not work on macOS or Linux.
βΉ There is no JavaScript component to this package; it's just a redistribution of the various PortableGit files and binaries.
You can use this package just as you would any other npm package that provides binaries! It's just that these binaries are Windows-specific. π€·ββοΈ
npx portablegit --version
#=> git version 2.X.Y.windows.Z
Available binary commands exposed through this npm package are:
-
bash
: Git Bashbash.exe
. Useful for cross-platform scripting. You can run Bash scripts on Windows! -
sh
: Git Bashsh.exe
. Runsbash.exe
in POSIX mode. -
git
: The actualgit.exe
binary for Windows. See the Git website to learn more about Git. -
git-bash
: Launches a terminal emulator running Git Bash. Uses MinTTY. -
git-cmd
: Starts acmd.exe
subshell preloaded withgit.exe
and other things in$PATH
. Does not launch a new window. -
git-gui
: Starts the Git GUI. -
gitk
: Starts the GitK GUI.
You can import.meta.resolve()
or require.resolve()
anything that would normally be in the extracted PortableGit/*
folder. Here's an example:
const cat = import.meta.resolve("portablegit/usr/bin/cat.exe");
console.log(cat);
//=> 'file:///C:/Users/you/Documents/myproject/node_modules/portablegit/out/portablegit/usr/bin/cat.exe'
const cut = require.resolve("portablegit/usr/bin/cut.exe");
console.log(cut);
//=> 'C:\\Users\\you\\Documents\\myproject\\node_modules\\portablegit\\out\\portablegit\\usr\\bin\\cut.exe'
This can be useful if you need to resolve the path to a specific binary (cat.exe
, cut.exe
, etc.) that isn't exposed by default.
You'll need a Windows computer to test this package locally. You can run npm run build
to make sure everything looks good locally. There are some CI automation scripts to auto-release on new Git for Windows releases. It's all automated! π€ Check out the gh-release-createworkflow to see how it works.