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General Discussion Git Installation - Windows

brandonlind2
brandonlind2
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Posted by brandonlind2
brandonlind2
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which option should I use for windows git, MinTTY(the default terminal of MSys2) or windows default console window?

I was following along with the video and an extra thing come up that wasn't in the video, Any ideas as to which one should I use as a front end programmer?

MinTTY(the default terminal of MSys2) description -git bash will use MinTTY as terminal emulator, which sports a resizable window, non-rectangulat selections and Unicode font. Window console porgrams (such as interactive Python) must be launched via 'winpty' to work in MinTTY.

or

windows default console window, description- git will use the default console window of windows ("cmd.exe", which works well with win32 console programs such as interactive Python or node.js, but has a very limited default scroll-back, needs to be configured to use a Unicode font in order to display non-ASCII characters correctly, and prior to windows 10 its windows was not freely resizable and it only allowed rectangular text selections it?

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Markus Mönch
Markus Mönch
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Markus Mönch
Markus Mönch
16,383 Points

same here... newer videos would not be bad...

Pablo Rocha
Pablo Rocha
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Pablo Rocha
Pablo Rocha
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That question refers to the terminal emulator that will be used while using Git Bash. If you don’t use Git Bash at all, just ignore it and click next to go to the next step.

If you are familiar with Linux command line, then the first option is right for you (note: you can still run windows command while using MinTTY), otherwise, choose the second one.

As described in the wizard, the Windows console has some limitations: width is fixed (prior to windows 10), the scroll-back is very limited means that very limited command history, need to be configured to use Non-ASCII Character, etc… while MinTTY doesn’t.