> On Windows, Git requires MSYS2, Bash, and some other tools from Linux to run It is not required. It is, sure, the very recommended way, but it's not required

> On Windows, Git requires MSYS2, Bash, and some other tools from Linux to run It is not required. It is, sure, the very recommended way, but it's not required. You can, and I've seen teams do it without much of a problem, use it from the Windows command line without MSYS nor Bash. Not only that, but a lot of developers work within their IDEs, which would often have a plug-in that hides away many of the details of whatever VCS they'd be using. Large quantities of developers just learn the basic menu options in their IDEs, many without even knowing or caring about advanced features or how it worked or even what tool was behind it -SCCS, CVS, Subversion, Mercurial, Git, Perforce, Source Safe, Plastic, StarTeam or whatever. Having said that, of course, some tools had their particular moments of popularity. CVS was widely popular. Shit, but widely popular because VSS was even worse. SVN replaced CVS to a large extent and for a while it was quite common.