Tools & Features Git for Windows focuses on offering a lightweight, native set of tools that bring the full feature set of the Git SCM to Windows while providing appropriate user interfaces for experienced …

The values are dynamic and only valid after calling the script. Forgetting to set them will fail silently, so be sure to call the script each time you open a new command prompt. Switch locale for git-bash …

How to diagnose when Git for Windows is slow Under certain circumstances, Git can become very slow on Windows. Here are a couple of hints to figure out why. Identify specific Git commands’ …

BusyBox-w32 has no idea (yet) about Git Bash’s interactive terminal, and therefore does not support any interactive usage, Git Bash promises a full-featured Bash, not BusyBox’ ash, with Git for Windows, it …

Here are the steps to install the 64-bit version of Git for Windows to be run in an MSYS2 terminal (msys2_shell.cmd): Edit /etc/pacman.conf and add the Git for Windows package repositories above …

Examples are apt for Linux, homebrew for macOS, maven for Java and pip for Python. While Git for Windows is based on MSYS2 which bundles the Pacman tool (known from Arch Linux) for …

To update, you need to close all programs using the msys2-runtime (including all of the terminal windows), then copy the msys0.dll file, replacing the existing /usr/bin/msys-2.0.dll, either using …

Creating symbolic links By default, the ln -s command in Git Bash does not create symbolic links. Instead, it creates copies. To create symbolic links (provided your account has permission to do so), …

Recent versions of git for windows 2.x come with an ssh agent startup script and the installer also checks if an ssh agent is currently running and asks you to kill this process. Run the ssh agent: start …

Make sure that all Git SDK Bash windows are closed first, i.e. that no processes are running that might lock files that want to be updated Start a cmd window Run update-via-pacman.bat in the command …