in reply to PerlPowerTools, Windows and ActivePerl
I just use Git for Windows and put it in my path. It has all the *nix utilities native to Windows .exe files you want including Git and GnuPG, ssh, etc without having to install Cygwin. It even has a Perl version but I use Strawberry Perl and it doesn't interfere.
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