Chocolatey was born out of providing automation for Windows and doing that with packages, packages that could surround an installer but didn’t necessarily need to. The Chocolatey install scripts use the Chocolatey package (a nupkg file itself) to be installed and upgraded as just another package.

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26 May 2016 Git is a major part of a developers work flow these days no matter what platform you work on. There are many different ways to install and use Git on Windows and in this post I will cover 5 different ways and talk about the pro’s and con’s of each.

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At the end you should have a good idea of how to have a great experience with Git on Windows not matter what your scenario. Be sure to let me know your favorite in the comments or if I missed one. There is a walk through video for each of the ways to install git on Windows coming soon.

The Five ways Below are the 5 basic ways to install git on Windows. There are probably others but these are the ones that I tend to show developers. I personally tend to end up installing git for command line usage and installing a GUI for more complex tasks. There are a few tasks () that are easier on the command line and a few that are easier in a GUI (selecting single lines from multiple changes in a file for an atomic commit). • • - preferred way on Windows 10 • - Great for older version of Windows • -,,,, etc • - In preview for Windows 10 (sign up for the to try it out today) Git for Windows is the foundation for running Git on Windows. Many of the other options listed are using Git for Windows (previously msygit) under the hood. This option will install the git client, the windows implementation of BASH tools and a few Git GUI tools.