I always used mingw and similar projects. IMO, putty was always annoying (but ve...

MortyWaves · 2025-08-16T04:53:59 1755320039

Indeed, that and “git bash” were always the weird outliers. I’m glad there’s now native options.

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 · 2025-08-16T06:06:10 1755324370

mingw predates git on windows (and in general), but yeah, indeed.

interesting to scan the log on that: https://github.com/git-for-windows/build-extra/blob/main/Rel...

perching_aix · 2025-08-16T09:27:15 1755336435

I remember my journey trying to disambiguate Git Bash, Git for Windows, MinGW and MSYS2. To this day, I'm still not sure I have the full story right.

1oooqooq · 2025-08-16T17:20:14 1755364814

just install msys2.

i cannot imagine windows without it. even wsl garbage pales in comparison

account42 · 2025-08-18T08:47:04 1755506824

One nice thing about putty is that it let's you specify the password on the command line. Can't stand software that doesn't let you make your own decisions.