WhyIsRxvtNotTheDefault - wnoguchi/msysgit GitHub Wiki

Msys comes with an Rxvt (a terminal window which is resizable, has a scrollback that you can trigger by Shift+!PageUp, and text is easily selectable and pastable) which you can start by clicking on msys-rxvt.bat in the bin/ folder. However, with Rxvt, these issues are most apparent:

• pushing via ssh is not working right now, it seems,
• the pager is not called correctly (it is not connected to a tty),
• stderr does not seem to be shown,
• when vi is called as the editor for the commit messages, it does not get any input,
• etc.

So while Rxvt is arguably nicer than cmd, it is not recommended at this time to use it.

The good news is that you can fetch via git:// protocol, and using msys.bat -- which uses the default Windows command line window -- you can use the ssh protocol.

(You might also want to try Console, a Windows console window enhancement. It shares a lot of Rxvt's features. --jondo)

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There's also Mintty (a fork of Putty), which is very reliable. http://code.google.com/p/mintty/