git cli available from within IntelliJ?

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Is it possible to execute git cli commands from within IntelliJ?  When I click the Git icon in lower left corner (alt-9), I get a limited choice of options, and a console that is read-only.

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Hi Brian,

What you see is https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/version-control-tool-window-console-tab.html which only shows output and is not interactive. 

Terminal here is interactive and all terminal commands can be used (git, too):
 

 

 

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Ah, perfect!  Completely missed that.  So digging deeper, I found this dialog and tried to set it up to bring up git-bash:

 

 

However, it's not opening up the Terminal window in the IDE, but rather popping up a separate window. Any way to force git-bash to open in the IDE?

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You can try to set bash.exe path as the Shell path:

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That worked, thanks again!

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