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I intend to use GitHub with Git Extensions and possibly integrate with FogBugz (optional).
Looking at the download page and reading some rather technical half related questions I wanted to see what you thought would be better to install on Windows 7, given I want to integrate with Visual Studio 2008 (thinking this would be through GitExtensions).
A straight answer (msysGit or Cygwin?) between the two would be great but any more no brainer advice on starting out on GitHub would be welcome, or if indeed I've missed the mark entirely (does it matter which?). Will be importing from Subversion.
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msysGit is the development environment to compile Git for Windows.
Git can be installed in Cygwin along with it. When installing Cygwin it will ask some extra packages, there the Git option can be included. This is the only way to install Git in Cygwin.
Cygwin's was the officially recommended one last time I checked, but I think msysgit might have caught up now. I'm using TortoiseGit with msysgit, and it seems to work fine. Recommended.
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In my experience, Cygwin is much better: Windows Git Tutorial: Cygwin, SSH and Projectlocker.
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