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Add a link to download MinGIT on Git downloads. #1536
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hey @pratikpc I'm not sure we should add MinGit:
so it doesn't seem to be very useful or user-friendly at least for most Windows users furthermore:
so it seems to come included? Not sure if your suggestion is to have another link to download just MinGit or just to add a quick sentence letting users know about MinGit? |
Sadly, no. Windows isn't that generous yet. It's an article from the Azure Devops team so I presume at one point they did provide Mingit pre-installed with one of the Azure CLI binaries. I actually put the link there because there is another mingit project that does something completely different and I did not want to cause major confusion.
That is indeed true. I think a lot of Windows users install Git not just for Git but also for Git Bash and other utilities. But I, on the other hand really wasn't very interested in the other utilities. For example, I prefer Notepad for interactive rebase over the default which is vi I think and didn't want Gitk (I prefer GitHub Desktop and GitKraken more). Mingit does ship with a lot of Linux utilities like wc, awk, cat etc.
I was thinking about a download link but yeah, a quick sentence would be nice too! Something like You can use Mingit if you want a smaller binary and don't want Git-Bash etc.. |
sorry, totally missed your reply. not sure what's the current status of MinGit, but if you see it's still a good solution, feel free to create a MR @pratikpc :) |
I'm glad I found MinGit. Even PortableGit requires some strange actions like |
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases
Git for Windows now also distributes MinGit where they reduce some of the bloatware Git has
It would be nice to see MinGit mentioned here https://git-scm.com/download/win
An article on MinGIT
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