Bring Git Joy to Windows
Since moving off Windows as my development platform, git has probably been the greatest treat. A great, lightweight, self-contained and very well thought-out piece of software, it’s one of those rare tools that once you’ve used it for a while, you can’t image how you worked without it.
A lot of great ruby tools are using or moving to github, a platform which I’m only just starting to get my head around, but looks really exciting for the development of open-source software.
I suspect windows users probably feel a little excluded from git so in order to spread the love, I thought I’d have a go at installing it on a Windows machine while you just sit back and watch. Wanna play?
SSH on Cygwin
I’m following Gina Trapani’s outstanding tutorials on lifehacker to get me some of that unix command-line joy on the rusty old windows box in the corner.
Note to other linux-naive cygwin users out there. If you want to install the ssh command, look for the package called ‘openssh’. No amount of staring at the packages squid and ssmtp is going to make it appear where you might expect it to.