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

[Mike Parker]

On 5/18/2012 4:58 PM, 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

I use it through Git Bash, which is part of the Git for Windows[1] 
package and isn't much different from a Linux command line. Once I got a 
grip on the basic git commands, I've had no problems with it at all. In 
fact, I actually cringe when I have to go back to subversion now and again.

[1] http://msysgit.github.com/