There's new GIT instructions on Github now

[Daniel Gibson]

Am 21.05.2011 00:15, schrieb Nick Sabalausky:
> "Daniel Gibson" <metalcaedes at gmail.com> wrote in message 
> news:ir6jup$1he8$1 at digitalmars.com...
>> Am 20.05.2011 22:26, schrieb Nick Sabalausky:
>>> "Don" <nospam at nospam.com> wrote in message
>>> news:ir55o4$2lhg$1 at digitalmars.com...
>>>>
>>>> Here's my list of bugs in git for windows which I found in the first 
>>>> fews
>>>> days of using it:
>>>>
>>>> 1. Windows git's handling of paths is completely screwed.
>>>> If you've checked out your working copy into (say) c:\foo\bar\dmd
>>>> and you rename a parent directory, eg to c:\foo2\bar\dmd, your working
>>>> copy gets hosed.
>>>> Maybe this happens only after you've performed a git operation; didn't
>>>> experiment with it much.
>>>
>>> That one's kind of funny, actually. Linus himself pretty much considers 
>>> SVN
>>> to be total shit, and yet SVN handles that perfectly fine, while his 
>>> program
>>> apperently doesn't.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> You wouldn't really expect that Linus cares about Windows support, would
>> you? I guess on Linux git works really well (haven't used it much yet).
>>
>> Microsofts VCS (Visual Sourcesafe or something like that) won't work
>> properly on Linux either..
> 
> Microsoft is a corporation. So by definition, self-interested (Besides, VSS 
> is rightfully dead anyway). Linus isn't a corporation and he isn't selling 
> Linux. But he is, presumably, a self-respecting software developer and not a 
> self-righteous ass that's out to throw his weight around at any whim (or is 
> he?). So why not?
> 

Yeah, Linus is not a corporation, he doesn't get paid to develop git, so
why should he spend his precious time for Windows support that he (and
his targeted userbase, i.e. Linux kernel developers) doesn't need?