I would go for msysgit rather than cygwin see vonc's answer http://stackoverflow.com/questions/783906/git-under-windows-msys-or-cygwin
and http://www.gitcasts.com/posts/git-on-windows On 26 August 2010 06:39, Diego Zamboni <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi. You really should become a Cygwin user if you "must" use Windows. >> Git is a very user friendly tool using command line, but the windows >> terminal is poor at best for a command line environment. Try cygwin >> and then make-believe that you are working on a real server machine. >> > Hear hear! I absolutely agree (see my previous message). > > I'm not sure exactly, but I bet a version of git can be installed via >> cygwin. >> > Definitely, it's included in the packages repository, including the > subversion bindings, etc. And it's even a recent version (1.7.1 at the > moment, not the latest but fairly new): > > $ cygcheck.exe -p git | grep -v src | grep ^git | grep 1.7.1 > git/git-1.7.1-1 Fast Version Control System - core files > git-completion/git-completion-1.7.1-1 Fast Version Control System - git > bash completion > git-gui/git-gui-1.7.1-1 Fast Version Control System - git-gui viewer > git-svn/git-svn-1.7.1-1 Fast Version Control System - git-svn conversions > gitk/gitk-1.7.1-1 Fast Version Control System - gitk viewer > > --Diego > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "GitHub" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<github%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/github?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "GitHub" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/github?hl=en.
