GIT bash as Terminal not working in VSCode - visual-studio-code

Question

For home office I need to setup a whole bunch of things, however I seem to keep running into issues with making git bash work properly in VSCode.
I have installed Git 64-bit Git for Windows.
Initially it didn't work at all until I added the following to my settings.json
"terminal.external.windowsExec": "D:\\SOFTWARE\\Git\\bin\\bash.exe",
"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "D:\\SOFTWARE\\Git\\bin\\bash.exe"
with the second line saying it is deprecated, but it works none-the-less.
Now it runs but inconsistently. Running just the 'ls' command repeatedly it :
45% of the time won't run
45% of the time states 'segmentation fault'
10% actually work
The git bash app itself runs the commands with zero issues. I have read up multiple posts on 'segmentation fault' and seem no closer to the issue.
What I have tried :
Adding exceptions to AV (only running defender ATM)
re-installing git multiple times with admin rights to main and secondary drives
Win10 safe-mode installation
restarts before and after installations and installs
installing older versions of Git.
adding '*\Git\bin' to environment variables
I am really at a loss here and it works fine at the office. Perhaps I am missing something obvious.
Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

I found what I needed.
I needed to add in the settings.json file the following code :
"terminal.integrated.env.windows": {
"PATH" : "D:\\SOFTWARE\\Git\\bin\\bash.exe"
}
Having done that I thought I could remove the previous deprecated code :
"terminal.integrated.shell.windows": "D:\\SOFTWARE\\Git\\bin\\bash.exe"
But it seems it still was required.
I hope this helps someone as most of the references out there (that I could find) refers to the older deprecated code.
Note : seems now my 'vagrant' and 'npm' command wont run at all anymore