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

Paul D. Anderson paul.d.removethis.anderson at comcast.andthis.net
Fri May 18 13:04:56 PDT 2012


On Friday, 18 May 2012 at 07:58:26 UTC, 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 Git Bash and I'm very happy with it.



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