When I open Git Bash on Windows 7, the default directory is /
. It has *nix-style subdirectories, and cd ..
doesn't change the directory. Where is this directory on my Windows machine?
The directory C:\Program Files\Git\
has similar contents, except that /
has a proc
subdirectory, and C:\Program Files\Git\
doesn't.
I put dir /s /a git-bash.exe
in cmd.exe
, and it only came up with the git-bash.exe
in C:\Program Files\Git
, no other one (such as the one in /
).
mount
in the the bash shell.C:\Program Files\Git\
. This still doesn't answer why/
has aproc
subdirectory andC:\Program Files\Git\
doesn't. Do you know?mount
gives the line:C:/Program Files/Git on / type ntfs (binary,noacl,auto)
. But why does/
have aproc
subdirectory thatC:\Program FIles\Git\
doesn't have then?/proc
is very special in that it is also a virtual filesystem. It's sometimes referred to as a process information pseudo-file system. It doesn't contain 'real' files but runtime system information (e.g. system memory, devices mounted, hardware configuration, etc)."