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Invoking notepad++ from Git Bash

I am using msysgit in Windows 7. How do I invoke notepad++ from Git Bash, like we do it with our …

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TortoiseGit - git not found

I'm using TortoiseGit with msysGit installed with the msysGit-fullinstall-1.6.4-preview20090729.exe and it works in a very strange way: on …

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MSysGit vs. Git for Windows

I am having trouble determining the difference between MSysGit and Git for Windows. How are they different? Why would I …

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Package management in git for windows?

I'm reading the github wiki for git-for-windows and it says that msys2 bundles pacman: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/…

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Configure Git to use Plink

I'm trying to configure Git to use Plink. It worked for me many times before. Now, for some reason, this …

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Msysgit bash is horrendously slow in Windows 7

I love git and use it on OS X pretty much constantly at home. At work, we use svn on …

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Which is the smarter git protocol, ssh or git(over ssh) or https protocol?

Which is efficient? SSH:// or Git:// (File compression) I understand in Git, git protocol is smart because there is a …

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Git ssl error on windows

I keep getting the following error when attempting to clone a git repository using ssl on windows: error:14090086:SSL routines:…

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msysgit error with hooks: "git error: cannot spawn .git/hooks/post-commit: No such file or directory"

I'm having trouble getting post-recieve and post-commit hooks to work correctly with msysgit (Windows 7 Pro/32 and Ultimate/64). For post-commit hook …

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What happens when I clone a repository with symlinks on Windows?

There's been a lot of questions about adding support for symlinks on Windows. But, what actually happens when I clone …

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