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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Copyright 2014 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
+# Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
+# found in the LICENSE file.
+
+# This apparently useless file enables windows users to get access to
+# depot_tools' built-in bash.exe. When git executes this file as in `git bash`,
+# it has bash and related tools pre-installed in the environment. Therefore even
+# though 'bash' from cmd.exe doesn't work, bash here does work as you'd expect.
+
+bash "$@"