On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Philippe Vaucher <philippe.vaucher@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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. > > 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. -- 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