Out of a git console: how do I execute a batch file and then return to git console?

Question

I have a small utility script called clear.bat that does some housekeeping work on my sources.

It is a .bat file so that I could easily dou

Answer 1

I like start clean, it opens a new window with cmd. This method has some benefits:

• cmd.exe gets a native console
• the new console has a native windows character encoding (e.g. cp1251 vs utf8)