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So I would use Cmder instead of the standard console cmd.exe? When would I use msysgit? Is it a competitor to Cygwin or does it solve a different problem?
by notsony 11y ago
So I would use Cmder instead of the standard console cmd.exe?
When would I use msysgit? Is it a competitor to Cygwin or does it solve a different problem?
- yoklov 11y agoYou might. That's it's default configuration. I'm not really an expert on the differences between msys and cygwin, but i believe msys solves a subset of the problems solved by cygwin, while remaining much closer to how the OS actually functions (instead of keeping windows and unix totally separate, it does its best to merge them). Msysgit is part of the standard git distribution on windows, I believe, and so many people already have it installed. It comes with a bash-like shell, which is what I'm talking about in the post above.