The bash shell provided with msysgit (http://msysgit.github.io) or with Cygwin are very useful for people on Windows looking for something more useful than cmd.exe or PowerShell.

However, it appears that at least some of the standard conda commands won't work in this environment (probably not surprisingly), e.g. "activate", since .bat file modification of cmd.exe environment is doubtless different from what a bash shell expects.

It would be nice if this worked. Perhaps just bundling msysgit with Anaconda for Windows would be a good way to provide a "full solution".