Why does Aptana Studio need Git installed on Windows?
Why does Aptana need Git installed on Windows?
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Answers to this question on their support forum is probably what you are after.Extract from linked site:Thank you for your interest in coming  back and your initial feedback. We use  git internally within the IDE for a  variety of purposes. Some user-visible  areas:1) Downloading, editing, and  contributing back changes to Rubles,  our scripting interface. 2) Allowing  users to easily download templates and  samples that are remotely hostedI would not view it as a source  control system in this context, but  rather an program prerequisite. We  could have used a regular Java git  library, but we also use the git app  on Windows to provide good terminal  support too. We also could have  re-built the functionality ourselves,  but the git architecture and  infrastructure allows a lot of  flexibility that we can take advantage  of. You can choose not to install git,  but the above features won't work.There is a side benefit of allowing  users extremely easy setup of a source  control system without needing any  external servers, but users don't need  to interact with that if they have  another source control system they  like.Hope that explains our motivations a  bit better,