Improve Windows prerequisites section

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Bryan Housel
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* Install [Git for Windows](https://git-scm.com/downloads)
* Install [Cygwin](https://cygwin.com/install.html) - install default packages + `make`, `wget`
* Optionally, install [apt-cyg](https://github.com/transcode-open/apt-cyg) for managing your Cygwin packages
* Edit `.bashrc`:
* Put Git for Windows before Cygwin in PATH, otherwise `npm install` may [fail to fetch git repositories](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/7456)<br/>`export PATH=/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Git/mingw64/bin/:$PATH`
* Edit `~/.bashrc`:<br/>
Put Git for Windows before Cygwin in PATH, otherwise `npm install` may [fail to fetch git repositories](https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/7456)<br/><pre>
export PATH=/cygdrive/c/Program\ Files/Git/mingw64/bin/:$PATH</pre>
* Edit `~/.gitconfig`:<br/>
Add these lines to avoid checking in files with CRLF newlines<br><pre>
[core]
autocrlf = input</pre>
## Installation