Moving to D

[Jesse Phillips]

Nick Sabalausky Wrote:

> "Vladimir Panteleev" <vladimir at thecybershadow.net> wrote in message 
> news:op.vow11fqdtuzx1w at cybershadow.mshome.net...
> > On Fri, 07 Jan 2011 04:09:04 +0200, Andrej Mitrovic 
> > <andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I don't think git really needs MSYS? I mean I've just installed git
> >> again and it does have it's own executable runnable from the console.
> >
> > MSysGit comes with its own copy of MSys. It's pretty transparent to the 
> > user, though.
> >
> 
> That might not be too bad then if it's all packaged well. The main problem 
> with MSYS/MinGW is just getting the damn thing downloaded, installed and 
> running properly. Do you need to actually use the MSYS/MinGW command-line, 
> or is that all hidden away and totally behind-the-scenes?
> 

I am able to run git commands from powershell. I ran a single install program that made it all happen for me. You can run what it calls "git bash" to open mingw.