Change Intellij terminal to gitbash

If you usually use the gitbash console in Windows and you prefer to use it also in your Intellij you can change the terminal easily.

Open Intellij settings

First open the IntelliJ settings

Change Intellij terminal

Look for terminal options

In the terminal options change the default terminal to gitbash

Change Intellij terminal

Choose bash.exe in the path where you have Git installed inside the bin folder

Change Intellij terminal

Change Intellij terminal

Open the IntelliJ terminal again

Close the terminal and reopen it.

Change Intellij terminal

That’s all. You already have a gitbash terminal in your IntelliJ

Change Intellij terminal

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