Moving to D

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jesse Phillips" <jessekphillips+D at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:ig61ni$frh$1 at digitalmars.com...
> 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.

I just tried the msysgit installer that Andrej linked to. I didn't try to 
use or create any repository, but everthing seems to work great so far. 
Painless installer, Git GUI launches fine, "git" works from my ordinary 
windows command line, and I never had to touch MSYS directly in any way. 
Nice!