GitBuilding for Beginners

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Before I forget this short tutorial for the latest version, I will share it in this post and then post it on the web page.

Tutorial: Create a Desktop shortcut of GitBuilding v0.13 (OS: Windows 11)

STEP 1: Create a batch file (.bat)

  • Right-click on an empty area of your desktop and select “New” → “Text Document”.
  • Rename the text document to a suitable name, such as gitbuilding-gui.bat
  • Right-click on the gitbuilding-gui.bat file and select “Edit” or “Open with” → “Notepad” to open it in a text editor.
  • In the text editor, add the following command:
    @echo off
    cd /d C:\
    start "" gitbuilding-gui
  • Replace C:\ with the desired path if you want to specify a different working directory.
  • Save the file and exit the text editor.

When you double-click on the gitbuilding-gui.bat file, it will run the gitbuilding-gui command in the terminal without opening a separate terminal window.

STEP 2: Create a Desktop shortcut

  • Locate the gitbuilding-gui.bat file on your computer.
  • Right-click on the file and select “Create shortcut”.
  • A shortcut named gitbuilding-gui.bat - Shortcut will be created in the same directory.
  • Cut or copy the shortcut.
  • Right-click on an empty area of your desktop and select “Paste” to place the shortcut on your desktop.
  • Optionally, you can rename the shortcut to something more user-friendly, like “GitBuilding GUI”, and replace the default icon with the GitBuilding logo.

Now, you should have a desktop shortcut icon for your gitbuilding-gui.bat file. Double-clicking on this icon will run the batch file and execute the specified commands.

GitBuilding-Desktop

Please, note: This tutorial was produced with the help of ChatGPT, an AI assistant, and tested by me, a human, on Windows 11.

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