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Leszek on Nov 26, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linux-flavored Windows

I'm not sure what problems the author had with Cygwin that he didn't with Git's msys environment. I'm not denying that there were problems, I'm just curious what they were.

acqq on Nov 26, 2013 [–]

I guess the problems come once anybody tries to mix the environments at once: Git installs msys, the user additionally installs Cygwin and if both are in the path the confusion is certain.

Roboprog on Nov 27, 2013 | [–]

Is there a problem simply using the version of git that comes with Cygwin? Seems to work for me.

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