[SOLVED] Can not activate a virtualenv in GIT bash mingw32 for Windows

Issue

When I try to activate my virtualenv from GIT bash mingw32 I do not get the expected response.

NOTE: py is the folder for Python projects in my Google Drive folder. hy is the virtualenv folder that was made when I ran virtualenv --distribute hy.

s3z@s3z ~/Google Drive/py/hy
$ Scripts/activate

So you see, there is no expected (hy) that appears before s3z@s3z ~/Google Drive/py/hy

s3z@s3z ~/Google Drive/py/hy
$ Scripts/activate.bat
Scripts/activate.bat: line 1: @echo: command not found
Scripts/activate.bat: line 4: syntax error near unexpected token `('
Scripts/activate.bat: line 4: `if not defined PROMPT ('

And when targeting the actual file name activate.bat I get error messages. Then I try deactivating to see what happens cause I thought maybe virtualenv was activated but hidden.

s3z@s3z ~/Google Drive/py/hy
$ Scripts/deactivate.bat
Scripts/deactivate.bat: line 1: @echo: command not found
Scripts/deactivate.bat: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token `('
Scripts/deactivate.bat: line 3: `if defined _OLD_VIRTUAL_PROMPT ('

s3z@s3z ~/Google Drive/py/hy
$ Scripts/deactivate
sh.exe": Scripts/deactivate: No such file or directory

Any ideas?

Solution

Doing Scripts/activate runs the script in a new instance of the shell, which is destroyed after the script execution. To run the script in your current shell, use either . Scripts/activate or source Scripts/activate.

Scripts/activate.bat does not work here because it is written in Batch, Windows cmd.exe language, and not Bash.

Answered By - Pierre Bourdon