Does anyone know what the git bash program for windows uses for its shell?
cmd, git, github, terminal
Solution
Github for Windows uses a Windows port of GNU bash which is provided by the MSYS project which is, in turn, a part of the MinGW project. As Andrew pointed out, this piece of software is really a part of Git for Windows which Github for Windows includes and uses internally.
So you can get `bash` for Windows outside of Github for Windows by installing MSYS.
Note though that Git for Windows is based on a modified `msys.dll` which received substantial amount of changes not included upstream. I'm not sure if this constitutes a user-noticeable change but "stock" `bash` might therefore differ in behaviour from that you're using inside Github for Windows.
Also note that this port of `bash` hasn't been taught to properly deal with non-ASCII characters. Hence even though Git for Windows is full Unicode since 1.7.10, `bash` doesn't know about this and I'm not sure it ever will.
Problem
Sorry if this is the wrong place to be posting but I am using the git bash program for windows downloaded from github. It pretty much functions the same as a linux / mac terminal and I was wondering if there was any software out there that does the same thing? The problem is that I can only have one git bash window open, if there is a way to open more than 1 instance of git bash, that would be great too! Thanks a lot, Martin