Run vscode cppbuild tasks with git bash

[FieryRMS]

I am trying to make my cppbuild task on vscode to run on the git bash instead the windows cmd. Below is a minimum reproducible example for the task,

{
    "type": "cppbuild",
    "label": "test",
    "command": "help",
    "args": []
}

My terminal.external.windowsExec is set to C:\Program Files\Git\bin\bash.exe and terminal.integrated.defaultProfile.windows is set to Git Bash as well, yet it still runs on the windows cmd. Changing type to shell does make it run on bash though, but I'd prefer to change the cppbuild default shell instead.

[FieryRMS]

I solved it myself, this was the process.

1. Open the folder containing all the extension code with vscode, for windows it's %USERPROFILE%\.vscode\extensions
2. Disable auto-updates. If you want to disable just for the C/C++ extension, follow this tutorial.
3. ctrl+shift+f then paste this line, command = `cmd /c chcp 65001>nul && ${command}`;
4. Open the file with that line, and comment it, under that line, paste,
   this.options.shell = 'bash'; or use the shell of your choice.
5. save and reload vscode, now it should use your preferred shell.

[fvydjt]

It works for me. By the way, the desired file is CPPTOOLS_EXTENSION_FOLDER\dist\main.js. For me, it's %USERPROFILE%.vscode\extensions\ms-vscode.cpptools-1.14.5-win32-x64\dist\main.js and the modified command line number is 45926.