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I have happily been using Git and Git Bash from https://git-scm.com/. There is a page with more information here: https://git-for-windows.github.io/.
Yesterday I ran into a problem with rsync
, and I started digging deeper into Git Bash for Windows. I realized that I'm not even sure of the name of the Bash program, because it's just bundled with the git-scm download. I'm calling it Git Bash for Windows, which seems reasonable.
In looking into "What is Git Bash" I read about Cygwin and a different thing called mysys2, which seems to be related to mysysGit
, and I saw references to MinGW
. But, then I saw in the FAQ that mintty is the the default terminal for Git Bash.
It seems that the Bash application is actually a specially curated bundle of other things (mostly listed above) that are available independently.
Fundamentally, I would like to know what is the basis that makes *nix commands like ssh
scp
cat
ls
work in Git Bash for Windows?
(I think a good answer would help someone understand, in broad strokes, how these components fit together and understand the right words for the components, but I don't want to break the SO question / answer format.)
Found a very good answer here: What is the exact meaning of Git Bash?
– geneorama – 2018-09-12T21:17:44.5301I think the official name / thing to google is "git bash". Helps to have it in quotes since both words are meaningful independently. – geneorama – 2018-09-12T21:19:06.500
Some good discussion on Reddit here and here (from 2017). They even address my original
– geneorama – 2018-09-12T21:20:47.923rsync
question!!