https://github.com/rcx/wsl-gitproxy

Proxy exe to call WSL git from Windows
https://github.com/rcx/wsl-gitproxy

git windows workaround wsl

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Proxy exe to call WSL git from Windows

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/rcx/wsl-gitproxy
• Owner: rcx
• License: mit
• Created: 2018-10-15T02:36:15.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-03-20T20:49:17.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-17T08:19:23.110Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: git, windows, workaround, wsl
• Language: C#
• Size: 11.7 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# WSL git.exe proxy

This project provides a `git.exe` that interoperates between Windows and WSL.

It does path conversions, etc.

Because of a [bug in WSL](https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/3246), some users' mounted drives don't get recognized properly by WSL.

This breaks path conversions and the working directory when calling `wsl.exe`.

The file `wslpath` is a python script intended to work around that. 

This proxy converts the paths of arguments and maintains ANSI colors.

## Setup

- Place `wslpath` at `/home/user/bin/wslpath` in the WSL filesystem. You can adjust the path in Program.cs as the constant "wslpath". If you are not affected by the wslpath bug, you can change this to `"/bin/wslpath"`.

- Compile this project and put the executable somewhere in your PATH. It serves as a drop-in replacement for `git.exe`. It executes the WSL command based on its exe name, so to use this for perl, for example, rename it to `perl.exe`.