Git bash here menu option missing on Win7 64 premium

[Peter Cutting]

Hi
I installed msysgit on my new machine but the Git bash here menu options on a folder window are missing

well actually Win7 seems to have no folder menu options by default (crazy) but I was able to switch them on somewhere

however the Git bash here menu options still do not appear (I miss XP)

Can anyone help me sort this out?

Peter

[Erik Faye-Lund]

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 11:24 AM, Peter Cutting <peter....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> I installed msysgit on my new machine but the Git bash here menu options on
> a folder window are missing
>

Did you install msysGit or Git for Windows. msysGit doesn't install
the "Git Bash here"-menu, Git for Windows does.

[Pat Thoyts]

Fire up regedit and open HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Directory\shell
Look in there for a key called git_shell. It should have a default
value of "Git Ba&sh Here" and a sub-key called 'command'. The command
subkey should have a default value of
wscript "C:\Program Files (x86)\Git\Git Bash.vbs" "%1"
assuming you installed to the default location.

If it's not there, maybe you didn't check the relevant box on
installation but creating these keys and values will fix that.

[Peter Cutting]

thats probably it. will check this evening
Tx

[Rhubarb]

Hi

first I installed Git-1.7.4-preview20110204.exe

this greated some git bash menu options in the start menu. But I want
them on each folder like I had in XP. so I contacted this group

someone said I should be using msysgit so I tried msysGit-
fullinstall-1.7.4-preview20110204.exe . That built itself but no menus
at all

Peter

[Rhubarb]

OK I have solved my mystery

The "Git bash here" option has not disappeared, it has just moved

on XP, it is on the folder menu (File?)
on W7, it is on the context menu when right clicking on the left hand
folder hierarchy pane

I prefer the XP as usual

Peter