getting grunt to work on windows with cygwin and git

grunt.md

Getting grunt to work with Cygwin and git on Windows is a bit difficult considering the cygwin package that is installed by git has an outdated version of node running on it (at least that was the case in Windows XP). There are several issues to work through:

1. Cygwin by default installs an old version of node, this was only the case in my Windows XP machine.
2. Open Cygwin shell
3. which node tells you where the executable is
4. node --version tells you if it's old
5. cd to the directory listed by which node
6. mv node.exe node.exe.bak
7. download node from nodejs.org and install it
8. Node installed through installer MIGHT not update PATH to point to correct version of node installed normally.
9. on my Windows XP: it was /c/Documents and Settings/mike/Application Data/npm:/c/Program Files/nodejs
10. on my Windows 7 machine: it was in /c/Users/Mike Sherov/AppData/Roaming/npm:/c/Program Files (x86)/nodejs/
11. to see current path: echo $PATH
12. to set path: export PATH="your path here"
13. i added /c/Documents and Settings/mike/Application Data/npm:/c/Program Files/nodejs: to my path
14. grunt needs to be installed globally and locally
15. cd to your jquery top level directory
16. npm install will install local grunt and grunt-compare-size
17. npm install -g grunt will install the global grunt that is recognized as in the PATH

that should be it, at least that's what worked for me

Nodejs supports Windows now officially, forget Cygwin.