How do I use Bash on Windows from the Visual Studio Code integrated terminal?

Question

Visual Studio Code on Windows uses PowerShell by default as the integrated terminal. If you want to use Bash from Visual Studio Code, what steps should be followed?

Answer 1

I tried the above answers as of vscode 1.42.1 and they worked inasmuch as to get me a git bash terminal. So, bottom line this setting works just for opening a bash shell from terminal:

"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "C:\\Program Files\\Git\\bin\\bash.exe"

However it has the unwanted side effect of also being the shell used to build things and that breaks the MS C++ chain because the \ character used for path separator is understood by bash as an escape character. The complete fix for me then required me to add this extra variable, setting it to powershell:

"terminal.integrated.automationShell.windows": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe"

Now, I can have my bash terminal and Ctrl-Shift-B or F5 work without problems.

Oh, and as other posters mentioned, the source for this information is VSCode's documentation.