Since the devs for git-for-windows are adamant of not expanding the installation size by 2MB to support zsh I am trying to see if I can just do it through msys2. So I can get zsh with the git-auto-fetch plugin running.
I am trying to make it so that it behaves like git for windows. Here's the list of things I am doing in terms of difficulty.
I installed the packages as pacman -S zsh git
- I am able to use
gitwithin msys2 but not outside. Likely I just need to add a path somewhere. - msys2 sets its own path ignoring Windows for the most part. So things I install in
scoopare not available. - I haven't been able to change the default shell to zsh yet. But I think that's just a minor thing.
- It uses it's own HOME folder not %UserProfile%. I gotten the HOME folder issue resolved though using MSYS2 home folder: show ~ by setting
db_home: windowsin/etc/nsswitch.conf git: 'credential-manager' is not a git command. See 'git --help'.when using against a repo that utilized credential manager
Also I have noted that accessing a directory that was done in git-for-windows before when I do git status it shows all files modified
msys2 also takes over the Shift-Insert key combination so I can't paste from clipboard using that combination.
git log does not page, it just shows everything.
