wslgit | Use Git installed in WSL | Code Editor library

I'm having problems passing properly in bash parameter values that include spaces and/or newlines from wsl to a program on the win10 host.

Well. it's a generic question, but it comes out of a concrete use-case. The concrete use-case is using the host-level git binary, namely git.exe from within the wsl.

I know there are rather popular solutions like wslgit, that lets you call from windows the git binary in the wsl. However, this does not only implies that your wsl would lunch for every git command if it was not already running, but it incurs a gotcha-full setup and a questionably optimizable performance footprint. My wsl is not always on - many of my tasks do not require it, and I don't want to keep it running for git - so my options are the opposite: use from the wsl the git.exe, which is always present.

Anyway, I believe this represents a more generic case and can be relevant to any host-level program called from wsl.

So, in the concrete example of git - I needed a shim that will pass the call to the git.exe whenever the git command is called from within any of the shells of the WSL.

This can be done by replacing /usr/bin/git with a shim that will wire the call to git.exe.

So. The 1st naive implementation was: