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Cc: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>,
	Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>,
	Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr>,
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Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
>
>> I think he way forward on Windows is
> Why is there only one way forward?  Why do you get to pick it, given
> that you've said you're not interested in working on it?
>
> [...]
>>                                               I never understood why
>> users on Windows want to use something as POSIX'y as git.git.
> Plenty of users on Windows use a command line.  I have even been such
> a user from time to time.  I'm quite grateful for Dscho et al's work
> on making that less painful.
>
> Jonathan
I agree completely. It's rare that I use Windows now, but a few years 
ago I installed Cygwin on any machine that I would use in any serious 
capacity. I haven't needed to do this since I started to use Git; the 
Windows installer ships all of the POSIX utilities that I need (with the 
possible exception of 'tree', and the caveat that scp can't handle files 
 >= 2GB).

I'm very appreciative of the work that's gone in to Git for Windows, and 
from my perspective it's a pleasant coincidence that it includes a POSIX 
shell and associated tools.

MMR...