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The Distinctly Unsexy Advantage of Git-Bash

Look, Git-Bash (Git-SCM), the very old and stable original way to do git on Windows (since it requires bash and, yes, perl) is still the best shell for Windows. It gives you all the high-priority things you love about bash:

• Keep scripting in bash
• Search your Windows filesystem with find
• Easily manage your $PATH without GUI
• Built in git and ssh

Git-Bash doesn’t try to be more than it is. It’s just bash with git in in. It’s not some convoluted, fucked-up attempt to unify the filesystems of Linux and Windows together while consuming the resources of a full (but buggy) virtual machine line WSL2 does. It just gives you enough bash to avoid posh so that you can ssh into a real Linux system.

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  #rant #git #bash #linux #tips

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