Why does git diff on Windows warn that the “terminal is not fully functional”?

Question

I\'m using msysgit 1.7.7.1 on Windows. I get an error when using git diff. What is causing this? Is there no diff tool included in msysgit? Wha

Answer 1

The answer can be found here, in which the author of the solution claims that:

the environment variable TERM was set to dumb

that was instead of

TERM=cygwin

You can change that to

TERM=msys

to solve the problem at hand.