Install git on windows and use it in cygwin
You have two options when install git: Install mysisgit https://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/list Install git from cygwin Recommendation is to use option 1, because by that you always get the latest git version. After install mysisgit on your windows machine, you should add git_install_folder/bin/ to your path environment variable so that cygwin can find it. Add the following configuration settings from cygwin: git config --global core.askpass "git-gui–-askpass" git config --global credential.helper store git config --global core.eol lf git config --global core.autocrlf false git config --global core.filemode false // ignore file mode(chmod) change in git