Installing git

Thu, 10 Apr 2014 19:25:10 +0000

So you have Windows 8.1 + Visual Studio 2013 installed. Now you need to install a git client.

My workflow on Mac is:

I use git command line about 70% of the time.
In the reaming 30% I’m using Tower, Kaleidoscope and Xcode.

So, I was looking for something similar for Windows. And so far, this is my current setup:

Mysysgit, for git command line.
SourceTree for GUI
I couldn’t find a good stand-alone diff-viewer, so I’m using SourceTree’s

What I like about Mysysgit is that it installs a Unix-like shell, with git auto-completion and you can also see the current branch in the shell prompt. That is very handy.

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Installing git