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MortyWaves 11 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: PuTTY has a new website

Indeed, that and “git bash” were always the weird outliers. I’m glad there’s now native options.

ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 11 months ago [–]

mingw predates git on windows (and in general), but yeah, indeed.

interesting to scan the log on that: https://github.com/git-for-windows/build-extra/blob/main/Rel...

perching_aix 11 months ago | [–]

I remember my journey trying to disambiguate Git Bash, Git for Windows, MinGW and MSYS2. To this day, I'm still not sure I have the full story right.

1oooqooq 11 months ago | | [–]

just install msys2.

i cannot imagine windows without it. even wsl garbage pales in comparison

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