My cygwin setup

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my_cygwin

install cygwin and: zsh, curl, wget, git, mintty, vim:
vim /etc/passwd and set your shell to /bin/zsh

install oh-my-zsh from my fork (with the performant git theme)
    
    git clone https://github.com/blecher-at/oh-my-zsh.git ~/.oh-my-zsh
    cp ~/.oh-my-zsh/templates/zshrc.zsh-template ~/.zshrc
	
Change the cygwin shortcut to use mintty
	
    C:\cygwin64\bin\mintty.exe -i /Cygwin-Terminal.ico -

Install the consolas powerline font	https://github.com/runsisi/consolas-font-for-powerline/blob/master/Powerline%20Consolas.ttf
	
Install (to your ~) my .minttyrc from https://gist.githubusercontent.com/blecher-at/63e4d01e058c762e632d/raw/.minttyrc (based on the beautiful solarized color scheme)

Install vim-pathogen (simple package manager for vim) https://github.com/tpope/vim-pathogen

    mkdir -p ~/.vim/autoload ~/.vim/bundle && \
    curl -LSso ~/.vim/autoload/pathogen.vim https://tpo.pe/pathogen.vim

Install vim airline and colors

    ln -fs /usr/bin/vim /usr/bin/vi
    cd ~/.vim/bundle
    git clone https://github.com/bling/vim-airline.git
    git clone https://github.com/altercation/vim-colors-solarized

use git with colors:

    git config color.ui true

How do you install the font?