Having a minimal cygwin installation has saved me much of my sanity over the years.
…but I’ve been using the “windows command line” since it was DOS 2.0. So some of these things are just muscle memory by now.
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I lost an hour and a half learning this. Its seared into mine now.
Thankfully I can use gui for everything else except mv, or at least I think so…
It just occurred to me. I am going to have to move to linux shortly and I was wondering if they have gui for git somewhere?
Answer = yes. Just found them.
That’s very nice, that Git for windows today distributed with “Git Bash” (MinGW as I understand), which serves the same.
No. Because you must be in the git bash shell to use it, no?
cygwin commands can be used from the windows command prompt so you can mix and match as needed.
Also, cygwin has way more utilities available than git bash like rsync, nano, etc.
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I found an interesting thing out about GitHub that everyone probably knows but me.
Anyway, if you fork a repository from the web interface you have a bullet proof copy of the repo where the forkee cannot activate the gh-pages branch and you retain commit, pull etc ability to the forked repo.
If you import a repository from the web interface repository tab, that severs the repo from the imported repo making it a one step process to have a fully functional, independent copy of a repo.
Not necessarily) A lot of Git-bash’s “unix tools” works from everywhere if you add C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin to windows “Path” env var. By the way, it includes nano.
Cygwin is much more powerful - that’s doubtless. I meant that git bash may be enough to save sanity too.