[tomjen3]

Microsoft made win dev tolerable by including Linux.

To properly work with git I installed gitbash -- that is essentially Linux in a box, complete with git, ssh and the basic bash tools like cat.

To do more complicated things, you can install WSL, which is literally a virtual machine running Linux, well integrated with the Windows system.

The problem of course is that well-integrated is not the same as native, but MS does have some of the best languages available, C# is pretty great.

[shortrounddev]

Git exists on windows without git bash. Just run `choco install git` and i recommend `choco install poshgit` too for some helpful terminal hints like current branch