> 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. 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. Philippe -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html