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msysgit + tortoise git make it pretty simple, and Visual Studio 2013 has built in git support (however I've not used it very much)

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I don't use VS, and as it turns out, the crappy console I'm talking about is this msysgit. The lack of a decent consistent terminal is my biggest pain in win7. cmd, powershell, msysgit - they all are total crap and every one works differently. And my Git settings aren't working from Eclipse, basically the only place they work is this git terminal. Sorry, but that's not 'wonderful integration'. On Linux everything just works.

Really? In my Linux experience it's a lot more rare for things to 'just work' than on Windows. Windows' homogenous environment contributes to this.

If by "things" you mean customer software support then yes, but development environments work consistently and are dead easy to set up. YMMV if you work on MS tech (.net, etc.), I don't. TBH one of my main reasons to move to Linux a few years ago is because I was pissed off by this particular problem (how to do it + ok and now tell me how to do it on windows and why half of what you describe doesn't work).

as i said, try tortoise git. msysgit is just the underlying git environment, and is pretty much the same as git on linux. tortoise git is the GUI front end and windows integration bit that makes it nice and usable.

cmd/powershell are horrible, so just install cygwin and ignore them. it gives you a fully functional bash shell with a package manager and the majority of the common Linux utilities and plays nice with windows CLI programs.

I cannot comment on Eclipse, but with msysgit + tortoise git, git pretty much just works in windows and integrates so well even our non technical staff (designers, QA etc) use it without any issues.

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