Multiple instances of ‘Git for Windows’
Resolved 💬 4 comments Opened Dec 9, 2025 by cheezmil Closed Mar 29, 2026
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor)
responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.
What version of Codex is running?
codex-cli 0.66.0
What subscription do you have?
business
Which model were you using?
gpt-5.1
What platform is your computer?
Microsoft Windows NT 10.0.22631.0 x64
What issue are you seeing?
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What steps can reproduce the bug?
Open a terminal window and enter 'codex' to use it. Strangely, the Codex extension for VSCode doesn't have this issue.
What is the expected behavior?
_No response_
Additional information
git version 2.48.1.windows.1
4 Comments
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v0.71.0 still
I upgraded to Git 2.52.0 64-bit but there are still issues, this is too strange; after starting to send messages, a new instance is created that consumes 15-20% of the CPU.
v0.73.0 still
I need to be more accurate, opening a terminal and sending a certain number of messages to Codex will generate the same number of Git for Windows instances, this issue has been troubling me, making me unable to use Codex's terminal, and I don't want to use Codex in WSL either, otherwise, there will be strange problems when running ps1 scripts.
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This bug report hasn't received any upvotes or additional posts in three months. Closing.
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Same issue here with Codex for Windows when working on a single-file project even without git initialized, sometimes Codex run more than 20 Git for Windows.