You 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 pr

You 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.