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by ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 300 days ago
I always used mingw and similar projects. IMO, putty was always annoying (but very useful) software. The "ecosystem" seems better now though.
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MortyWaves 300 days ago
Indeed, that and “git bash” were always the weird outliers. I’m glad there’s now native options.
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ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 300 days 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...

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perching_aix 300 days 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.
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1oooqooq 299 days ago
just install msys2.

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

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account42 298 days ago
One nice thing about putty is that it let's you specify the password on the command line. Can't stand software that doesn't let you make your own decisions.
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