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Better interop with WSL2 #3711

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WSL2 provides slow access to the Windows filesystem. This is particularly problematic when attempting to use git on largish repos. To combat this, you can install both git for windows and git on linux. That said, the user experience of this solution is not great. To use git for windows from WSL, you by default have to call it via git.exe. It would be more convenient if there was a dispatcher which could figure out which filesystem you were on and forward accordingly. Going further, it would be convenient if git for windows could use be set up to automatically use WSL vim, pagers, and rebase tools. Sharing a gitconfig file between versions would be nice as well. I would also like it if I could get a trimmed down version of git for windows which provides windows binaries only for those pieces which would be slow on WSL.

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