Use bash from WSL as sh.exe for GitKraken (5.0.4) for Windows

gitkraken-wsl-bash.bat

@echo off
REM Make sure that the path to the script is correct!
@bash -l -c "~/bin/gitkraken-wsl-bash.sh %*"

gitkraken-wsl-bash.sh

#!/bin/bash

# Mount root for windows drives, default is /mnt/ but can be changed in /etc/wsl.conf
MOUNT_ROOT=/mnt/

# Read GitKraken's hook script and arguments from STDIN
read -r GITKRAKEN_CMD

# Cleanup the path to the script:
# - Replace two or more '\' in a row with a single '/'.
# - Replace the windows drive letter (C:) with the mount point for the drive (/mnt/c)
FIXED_CMD=$(echo $GITKRAKEN_CMD | sed 's_\\\{2,\}_/_g' | sed "s_\([A-Z]\)\:/_$MOUNT_ROOT\L\1/_g")

# Run the hook script
bash -c "$FIXED_CMD"

gitkraken-wsl.md

1. Copy gitkraken-wsl-bash.bat and gitkraken-wsl-bash.sh, I put them in ~/bin.
2. Make sure that the script path in the bat-file and MOUNT_ROOT in the sh-file are correct.
3. Set gitkraken-wsl-bash.bat as 'Path to sh.exe' in GitKraken.

Works! Thanks for sharing!

Is it me or is GitKraken a bit slower right now?

Hey @carlolars, thanks for creating this! Do you still use this with GitKraken v6.5.x?

I'm having some trouble with it (partly to do with there being a space in my Windows User Name) but the .sh file doesn't seem to receive the GitKraken Command correctly.

gitkraken-wsl-bash.bat
This is unchanged from yours, except I had to wrap the %* in double quotes to deal with the space in my Windows Username

@echo off
REM Make sure that the path to the script is correct!
@bash -c "~/.bin/gitkraken-wsl-bash.sh "%*""

gitkraken-wsl-bash.sh
Not too much has changed here, added some debug echos, but the main difference is that read doesn't seem to work for me, so I attempted to replace it with "$@".

#!/bin/bash

# Mount root for windows drives, default is /mnt/ but can be changed in /etc/wsl.conf
MOUNT_ROOT=/mnt/

# Read GitKraken's hook script and arguments from STDIN
# read -r GITKRAKEN_CMD

GITKRAKEN_CMD="$@"

echo "CMD:"
echo $GITKRAKEN_CMD

# Cleanup the path to the script:
# - Replace two or more '\' in a row with a single '/'.
# - Replace the windows drive letter (C:) with the mount point for the drive (/mnt/c)
FIXED_CMD=$(echo $GITKRAKEN_CMD | sed 's_\\\{2,\}_/_g' | sed "s_\([A-Z]\)\:/_$MOUNT_ROOT\L\1/_g")

echo "Fixed:"
echo $FIXED_CMD

# Run the hook script
bash -c "$FIXED_CMD"

And this is the output I am currently getting.

Hi @RBrNx

Sorry but I don't use GitKraken anymore, but if I recall correctly from when I created these scripts the problem was that GitKraken didn't send the hook script and its arguments as arguments to the shell, but it rather created a new shell and then called the hook script with argument by writing to stdin of the new shell process. That is why the read had to be there.

But, since you see -lc in the argument then it might be that they have changed it, since the -c argument expects a string with the command and its arguments. Print the arguments to the .bat-script and see what it gets.

Hi Carlolars, just wondering.... are you using another Windows Git Gui for WSL now? Im still using MoxaXterm with gitkraken running on WSL itself. Not very happy about it haha. Alternatively i use the git plugins VSC provides.

Hi @Ridder90, I've been using Fork for some time now. It was a lot faster than kraken back when I switched and it's possible to have it use the git-client from within WSL by using wslgit (currently full support only in the develop branch). They recently started charging $50 for a lifetime license but imo it was definitely worth it.

Wow! Thanks for the tip and your work on the wslgit pull request! This is a major pain killer for me.

PS: the updated version of wslgit also works with GitKraken.

@Ridder90 how did you make wslgit work with GitKraken?

If someone found out how to make wslgit work with GitKraken, please let me know.

This does not work for new versions of gitkraken.

In windows 11 you can just run the Linux version.
https://github.com/microsoft/wslg

On windows 10 I used this
https://opticos.github.io/gwsl/

It actually works fine for me on Windows 11 with latest GitKraken.
I've tried a lot of xservers previously and also tried wslg. It looks promising but still has too many issues. I am going with this workaround for now.

@DAmNRelentless how did you get this to work with later versions of gitkraken?
I thought they used an internal git implementation instead of external commands?

I put both files into the same directory, adjusted the path in the gitkraken-wsl-bash.bat and set my GitKraken path for the sh.exe to this batch file.