How can I pre-define commands for when I open a new Git Bash command prompt

Question

I have noticed that on my various (Windows 7) machines running Git that when I open a new Git Bash command prompt I can often access previous commands by pressing the up arrow.

These commands differ from machine to machine, but each machine has the same preset commands every time I open Git Bash. One machine for example lets me scroll thorough git status and exit , another has exit and two blanks lines, while a third machine has no previous commands.

Can anyone say how these are set and what I can do to edit them?

Answer 1

To predefine aliases that stick, put things like

alias gs="git status"

into your ~/.bashrc .

~ would be C:\\Users\\<username> in Windows.

Since you were not overly specific with what you wanted:
You seem to want to have a set of commands you can cycle through with up , based on the commands on all the machines you have used lately. (Which are saved locally in ~/.bash_history on each machine.)

To just have a common history among all machines without some real dirty hackery is not possible, and also just very unlikely worth the effort. On how to achieve the cycle-through functionality, I have no clue.

Answer 2

这些命令存储在bash_history文件中，在Windows中为C:\\Users\\[YOUR USERNAME]\\.bash_history\\