Re: git on 64bit windows - state of the art?

From: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 19, 2012, 09:49 UTC
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On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher@gmail.com> wrote:

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>> I was hoping to use cygwin because I don't like the (understandable)
>> limitations of the msysgit toolset (restricted set of available tools,
>> invoking bat files is painful, symbolic links don't work the same way,
>> etc)
>
> There's a git bash with msysgit which is probably more limited than
> cygwin's one but decent enough. About the tools you can install
> something like https://github.com/bmatzelle/gow/wiki or
> http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net.

Yes, I have tried the msysgit bash which is ok, except for the annoyances mentioned. Thanks for the additional links, which I shall peruse.

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> To be honest most of the time I just use the *nix tools from the
> windows command line, and jump into git bash for more advanced stuffs
> when necessary.
>

I do like my bash  and have got used to the way cygwin handles "the divide".

jon.