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

Andre Tampubolon andre at lc.vlsm.org
Fri May 18 04:28:08 PDT 2012


On Windows, I use msysgit
http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/

Somehow it's slower than the Linux counterpart, but I guess it works
pretty well.

On 5/18/2012 2:58 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



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