The following document describes how to add new utilities to git bash: How to add more to Git Bash on Windows. This seems to be a better solution than PowerShell if you are coming from a Linux development background. While looking for a solution to provide git in PowerShell, I came across Git for Windows, which offers git bash, a Windows command tool that runs the MinGW bash shell. It has some attractive features, but is completely different from bash. Microsoft has release their own shell, the PowerShell. This led to the development of MinGW (minimal GNU for Windows), a package of GNU utilities that can run natively on Windows, along with a port of the GNU bash shell. Unfortunately, cygwin is not Windows, and software developed in it requires the cygwin DLLs to be installed on the target machine. In the past, the best way to create a Unix like development environment on Windows was by installing cygwin. What is the best way to create a Linux programmer friendly developer environment on Windows? For programmers used to developing on Linux, Windows is an incredibly unfriendly programming environment.
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