[OT] Windows users: Are you happy with git?

[Norbert Nemec]

In my experience, TortoiseGIT is rather awkward to use. Anyone looking 
for a GUI for git should have a look at SmartGIT. It is commercial but 
zero cost for non-commercial use, available for Win/Mac/Linux and I 
don't know any other GUI that comes even close in quality.

I guess there will always be some expert operations that require using 
the git CLI. This is just as usable on Windows as it is on Unix, but 
Windows users tend to avoid CLI in general. Anyhow, a user who migrates 
from SVN to GIT would not even miss that kind of operations.

In general I don't see any aspect where GIT is less adapted to Windows 
than any other version control.



On 18.05.2012 09:58, Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
> I remember back when we were considering whether to move DMD, Phobos and
> druntime from SVN on DSource to Git on GitHub, there were some concerns
> about using Git on Windows. People claimed that Git was a very
> Linux-centric tool, and that Windows support was buggy at best.
>
> Still, we made the switch, and I haven't really registered that many
> complaints since. So now I'm curious: Windows users, have you just
> resigned, or did Git actually turn out to work well on Windows?
> Specifically, is it usable from the CMD command line, and are graphical
> front-ends such as TortoiseGit any good? (I know running it through
> Cygwin works well, but that doesn't count.)
>
> -Lars