Cygwin's latest git, svn and git-svn combination is stuck at old versions that have [numerous](http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-08/msg00206.html) git-svn [bugs](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17693255/git-svn-dcommit-fails-because-of-assertion-error-svn-fspath-is-canonicalchild?rq=1). I'm considering just downloading the official windows version (warning: this will start the a download: <http://git-scm.com/download/win> ), putting that in my path, and calling those binaries from Cygwin. What are the downsides to this?