Take the 2-minute tour ×  I have next to no Windows experience
but a lot of Linux experience. An upcoming engagement will
require me to install and run our startup's Rails/MySQL software
on a Windows 2008 server. Where do I start learning basic things
like how to log in via ssh, how to check out a git repository,
how to set up MySQL, etc. though a ssh connection? I don't plan
on using VNC, just whatever is the Windows equivalent of a bash
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programmers.stackexchange.com Nov 3 '11 at 4:51   1 Answer 1  up
vote 3 down vote accepted  You are, to some extent, looking at
this wrong. The functional equivalent of SSH on windows is
remote desktop which is a gui environemnt, or really a remote
desktop. It is a different world, you can't expect it to behave
like *nix. That said, if you want command line level access I'd
recommend powershell which blows bash away in many respects.
All that said, you should check out:    • msysgit to solve your
git access issue