On 3/21/2018 4:49 AM, Thomas Wolff wrote: > On 21.03.2018 05:02, Vince Rice wrote: >>> On Mar 20, 2018, at 7:24 PM, Tony Kelman <t...@kelman.net> wrote: >>>>> Can anyone enlighten me about the relationship of "Git for Windows" >>>>> to Cygwin? >>>> They are not related. >>> Yes, they are. >> No they're not. > Tony explained well how they are related; Git for Windows is compiled in > and packaged with MSYS2 which is forked from Cygwin.
Git for Windows AKA MSysGit is a native build of git using MSYS as the shell support. It is not related to Cygwin and the Cygwin git. They are different as the Cygwin git uses POSIX sematics throughout while the native version doesn't do that. Using Cygwin git alongside the native git version will in the end bite you in the ass. I know from experience that this is the case. I've screwed up more than one patch because of using different git distributions of Cygwin versus native. -- cyg Simple -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
