How do I redirect parameters to an EXE to a WSL executable?

Question

Say I prefer the behavior of git in WSL to git.exe.

How do I make other applications that passes parameters to git.exe to actually use a the git instance in WSL?

The exe will be used by another application which relies on git.exe

I found a good starting point from Microsoft's article Run Linux tools from a Windows command line

C:\temp> wsl ls -la
<- contents of C:\temp ->

I am looking for something similar to alias

Answer 1

One solution is to create a file named git.bat with the following contents.

@wsl git %*

This is a batch file (similar to a Unix shell script), which invokes wsl with the command you want to execute (git) passing to it via %* as arguments any arguments you passed to the batch file invocation.

Place the file somewhere in your path. Note that this approach will behave in unexpected ways with Unix and Windows quoting, absolute file paths, and arguments containing spaces. This stems from differences between the two environments and the (unwelcome) interactions between the Windows shell and the WSL environment.