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This is actually mingw-based, not cygwin. Regardless it still works very well.
by adzm 5y ago
This is actually mingw-based, not cygwin. Regardless it still works very well.
- DHowett 5y agoFunny enough, it’s a bit of both. The msys2 runtime is a fork of the Cygwin runtime, and they keep parity pretty well. https://github.com/msys2/msys2-runtime https://github.com/msys2/msys2-runtime
- rossy 5y agoTo be even more pedantic, the Unix tools that come with Git for Windows are MSYS2-based, not MinGW-based, and MSYS2 is more like Cygwin than it's like MinGW (it's Cygwin with a few patches.)
- ntauthority 5y agoMSYS2, rather, which often seems to be bundled with a hybrid mingw install, but itself is based on a patchset to the main cygwin DLL and generally is a 'saner cygwin'.