GitForWindows vs. Cygwin

[Vince Rice]

> On Mar 21, 2018, at 3:49 AM, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> 
> On 21.03.2018 05:02, Vince Rice wrote:
>>> On Mar 20, 2018, at 7:24 PM, Tony Kelman wrote:
>>>>> Can anyone enlighten me about the relationship of "Git for Windows" to Cygwin?
>>>> They are not related.
>>> Yes, they are.
>> No they're not.
> Tony explained well how they are related; Git for Windows is compiled in and packaged with MSYS2 which is forked from Cygwin.

No, Tony explained how it's related to MSYS2. This isn't a MSYS2 mailing list.

>> It doesn't use cygwin, therefore it's not related. Since this is a cygwin mailing list,
>> that means the first two replies were correct — this isn't the place to discuss it.

Which means this still applies.

(And I just realized I quoted an email address last time. My apologies.)
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