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


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...


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.


just install msys2.

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




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