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### Windows
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- Two options exist for Windows:
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- [ msysGit] ( http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ ) and running Git under
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- [ Cygwin] ( http://www.cygwin.com/ ) .
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- #### msysGit (Recommended)
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- [ msysGit] ( http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ ) is a port of Git that runs
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- natively on Windows via the MinGW library. Because Git was not
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- originally designed to run on Windows, and since this is a port, some
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- bugs exist, though are rarely encountered in everyday use of Git. See
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- their website for download and installation instructions. Additionally,
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- you can watch [ Scott Chacon's screencast on installing msysGit on
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- Windows] ( http://gitcasts.com/posts/git-on-windows ) , and see [ this GitHub
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- guide] ( http://github.com/guides/using-git-and-github-for-the-windows-for-newbies ) .
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- #### Cygwin
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- [ Cygwin] ( http://www.cygwin.com/ ) provides a Linux-like environment for
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- Windows. It includes access to repositories of many software packages
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- available commonly in Linux distributions, including Git. You can find
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- the ` git ` package under the "devel" category.
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+ Download the official installers from
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+ [ Windows installers] ( https://git-scm.com/download/win )
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Testing your git installation
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