Using Git in a Windows environment?

[Myles Braithwaite]

Cygwin doesn't have a Git package yet so you would have to compile it yourself. But it is good for installing bash on Windows.

On 2013-02-22, at 8:29 AM, Mauro Souza <thoriumbr-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> I was wondering why nobody had suggested Cygwin yet. For sad Linux users trapped inside Windows, Cygwin is a good environment to use.
> 
> Mauro
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> 2013/2/22 Anthony de Boer <adb-SACILpcuo74 at public.gmane.org>
>> Scott Sullivan wrote:
>> > This is a wisdom of the crowd question.
>> >
>> > If I had to use Git in a windows environment, what utilities would you
>> > recommend to make it easier?
>> >
>> > So far I've found. http://msysgit.github.com/
>> 
>> I was talking to a couple of Windows git users recently, one of whom
>> recommended msysgit and/or Smartgit (commercial), while the other was a
>> temporarily-displaced Unix user who recommended installing Cygwin and
>> using traditional commandline git thereunder.  Your mileage may vary.
>> 
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