I use cygwin's git and it's fine. From the cmd.exe prompt, some of them are still working, as long as the cygwin bin folder is in the PATH variable, and the ex

I use cygwin's git and it's fine. From the cmd.exe prompt, some of them are still working, as long as the cygwin bin folder is in the PATH variable, and the executables end with .exe, and are not cygwin symlinks (the file would be very small and contain something like !<symlink ...>) - then they won't execute, but you can still execute them from cmd.exe, like this: sh -c "gitk --all" Hopefully git is still normal executable (gcc is not, for that: sh -c "gcc --help" C:> gcc --help Access is denied. C:> sh -c "gcc --help" ... Help displayed