Possible to use Msys2 instead of Git for Windows ?

[youd...@gmail.com]

Hi.

I went through your install wizard, it suggested me Git for Windows, so i installed it. But i found out, it's essentially stripped down Msys2. I already have full Msys2 with a lot of packages, so i don't want to have it twice on my system. Is it possible to use the git installed within Msys2 with pacman instead of the Git for Windows? Will everything work as it should?

[Yue Lin Ho]

Take a look at https://gitlab.com/tortoisegit/tortoisegit/issues/2426

youd...@gmail.com於 2017年10月7日星期六 UTC+8下午4時02分55秒寫道：

[Sven Strickroth]

Hi,

Am Samstag, 7. Oktober 2017 10:02:55 UTC+2 schrieb you...@gmail.com:

I already have full Msys2 with a lot of packages, so i don't want to have it twice on my system. Is it possible to use the git installed within Msys2 with pacman instead of the Git for Windows? Will everything work as it should?

It is possible, see here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/32427897/3906760

But please beware, that Msys2 provides a git.exe which is different to the one shipped with the Git for Windows package. IIRC the Msys2 Git does not pass the Git test suite and also has known issues with TortoiseGit (our test suite is also fully not passed).

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