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 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

Indeed, that and “git bash” were always the weird outliers. I’m glad there’s now native options.

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ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 5 days ago | parent [-]

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 5 days ago | parent [-]

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.

	▲	1oooqooq 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		just install msys2. i cannot imagine windows without it. even wsl garbage pales in comparison

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account42 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

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.