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Actually it does, because with the windows git it includes it's own copy of ssh and bash, both of which will clash and fight with msys and/or other ssh installs - including the copy of ssh that microsoft themselves tuck away in \windows\system32

it's quite 'normal' for git-for-windows' ssh-agent to completely disable ssh-agent from working properly system-wide because it ends up pointing things at the wrong ssh-agent.



But a developer isn't using Windows.


Pretty much all game development still happens on Windows because that's where all (or at least most of) the gamedev tools and middleware libraries are.


It's also where 99% of businesses are, client-side. Not everything is Electron or the web.


Let's narrow that down and say they wouldn't voluntarily. But you obviously never heard of that adversarial entity named IT Department.


If only that were true. Linux really should be the developer's system but for many reasons it isn't for a lot of people.


That's a very naive view.


That's a pretty ignorant view, there's tons of developers using Windows. If you take a look at the SO survey (or similar ones), Windows has 47% in the "Professional use" category.




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