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Which is efficient? SSH:// or Git:// (File compression) I understand in Git , git protocol is smart because there is a protocol agent on both end of communication to compress the file transfer resulting in faster clone by efficiently using the network bandwidth. From an O'Reilly book I found the following statements. For secure, authenticated connections, the Git native protocol can be tunneled over an SSH connection using the following URL templates: ssh: //[user@]example.com[:port]/path/to/repo.git ssh: //[user@]example.com/path/to/repo.git ssh: //[user@]example.com/~user2/path/to/repo.git

When I attempt to run certain commands (like git push, for example) from a git Bash on Windows 7 (64bit) I get the error: The program can't start because libiconv2.dll is missing from your computer I have searched exhaustively for a solution to this. The most I can find is an issue thread at the google code site ( Issue 419 ) and a few other blogs here and there. As far as I can tell none of the suggestions offered in the posts will actually solve my issue. I have tried re-installing. I have tried adding $GIT/bin to the PATH . I can verify that the dll is in the $GIT/bin directory...but still

Assuming I have a test.sh script that runs a server and Git Bash installed, how do I create a Windows shortcut that I can double click to run tesh.sh in Git Bash in the foreground and allows me to see the output of the server? Git bash is already a batch file with content similar to this : C:\WINNT\system32\cmd.exe /c ""C:\Git\bin\sh.exe" --login -i" If you want run (and leave running) a shell script in the context of the shell, specify it at the command line. The trick is that when the script file name is interpreted, it uses the Windows path , not the equivalent path in the sh/Git

This is related to another question I asked recently. When installing msysgit, the installer presents 3 options related to system path: Never change windows environment. With this option, you have to use the "bash" shell to work with git. Add the git\bin directory to the PATH environment variable, but without overriding some builtin windows tools. Fellow stackoverflow-ian Gabe Moothart told me in a comment that this option will make some git operations fail! What are these operations? Should I worry about them? Same as 2 but override some default system tools. What are these tools? What parts

When I try to create a symbolic link from the Git Bash shell, it fails every time all the time: $ ln -s /c/Users/bzisad0/Work testlink ln: creating symbolic link `testlink' to `/c/Users/bzisad0/Work': Permission denied The only thing it does, besides give the error message, is create an empty directory named (in this case) testlink . I don't see any problem with the ln executable. For instance, it is owned by me and marked as executable: $ which ln /bin/ln $ ls -hal /bin/ln -rwxr-xr-x 1 BZISAD0 Administ 71k Sep 5 11:55 /bin/ln I also own the current directory ( ~ , which is /c/Users/bzisad0 ):

I am having trouble determining the difference between msysGit and Git for Windows . How are they different? Why would I choose one over the other? Are they not the same thing? On: http://msysgit.github.com/ The title is Git for Windows, the application is msysgit. Even in the event they are not, I expect the only differences will be in the method of compilation (i.e. compiler used and any options set) and any extraneous packaging (such as having a bash emulating shell as in msysgit). The actual product (Git itself) should remain broadly similar. Edit : Thanks to Jarrod for pointing this out.