Anybody have a git-on-windows success story?
I need a git client on my windows workstation. I would like to continue working from the command line rather than using a GUI for the most part (but am curious about any added functionality the Windows GIT GUI might offer. I would ideally like to be able to run *nix commands on the windows machine. I find the different windows commands (dir instead of ls, backslashes instead of slashes, etc) and the CMD window to be really awkard when it comes to resizing and cut-and-paste and stuff. I also want to avoid Torgoise GIT primarily to avoid any daemons or services running to detect changed files in order to update my Windows Explorer windows and secondarily because also because its integration into the context menus on my windows machine apparently would conflict with an install of Tortoise SVN.
I've never used CygWin or anything like that but really dig the idea of a CLI window that lets me interface with my windows machine using my beloved *nix commands (ls, grep, mkdir, etc.).
Can anyone suggest a tool or combination of tools that might work for me here? I'm not really sure what components are included in msysGit (apparently the official git client for windows? but also 'separate from git itself' according to this page). I also don't know the difference between msysGit and 'GitHub for Windows' which is apparently available here. The getting started link also mentions Powershell?
This page mentions CygWin but opts instead for msysGit and ends up using Git Bash but I'm not sure how similar Git Bash might be to *nix-style commands or how much it might inherit from the Windows CLI.
Any war stories or whatever would be much appreciated.