Re: Running git on Windows command line

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On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:02 PM, John Dlugosz
<JDlugosz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> The msysGit (the development environment for Git for Windows)
>> installer does not modify the system-wide path, but the Git for
>> Windows installer does. Perhaps you've previously been using msysGit
>> instead of Git for Windows?
>>
>> --
>> Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund
>
> I've only installed "msysgit".  The item in the path, which I assume was added by the option to "Git from command prompt", with the other two choices being "Git bash only" and "git and included unix tools from command prompt".  I did notice that the exact wording, if not the choices meanings (I'm not sure), seemed to change some time within the last two years.
>

It sounds to me like you've installed indeed Git for Windows (which is
the end-user product from the msysGit-project); the msysGit installers
doesn't show a wizard with questions, it just installs a
self-contained development environment.

You can tell the packages apart by the name:
* Git-something.exe and PortableGit-something.exe are installers for
Git for Windows.
* msysGit-netinstall-something.exe and
msysGit-fullinstall-something.exe are installers for msysGit, the
development environment used to develop Git for Windows.

I hope this clears up a bit.

-- 
Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund
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