rikard-acst/gorunner

simple executable runner to fix an annoying problem in WSL and git

GoRunner

A simple executable runner to circumvent an annoying small problem

To run git efficiently in WSL with a repository on the C drive, you have to run the following executable as git

#! /bin/sh
case "$(pwd -P)" in
    /mnt/?/*) exec /mnt/c/Program\ Files/Git/cmd/git.exe "$@" ;;
    *) exec /usr/bin/git "$@" ;;
esac

But when using named panes in tmux with set pane-border-status top, it overwrites your named pane with the Windows executable name. This stops it from spinning up a new shell in cmd.exe to run these commands and allows you to keep your pane name.

The resulting git command becomes

#! /bin/sh
case "$(pwd -P)" in
    /mnt/?/*) exec gorunner /mnt/c/Program\ Files/Git/cmd/git.exe "$@" ;;
    *) exec /usr/bin/git "$@" ;;
esac

gorunner's Issues

Still doesn't fix the problem

Either we don't get color output by removing the line cmd.Stderr = os.Stderr
or, the same issue applies where the executable name is replaced as the tmux pane name