Move DWT2 repository - github or bitbucket?

Alex Rønne Petersen xtzgzorex at gmail.com
Fri Aug 26 14:28:50 PDT 2011


On 15-08-2011 14:36, torhu wrote:
> On 15.08.2011 15:28, Denis Shelomovskij wrote:
>> 15.08.2011 9:29, Jacob Carlborg:
>>> On 2011-08-14 22:20, torhu wrote:
>>>> On 11.08.2011 19:58, Jacob Carlborg wrote:
>>>>> I'm planning to move the DWT2 repository to either github or
>>>>> bitbucket.
>>>>> Which one would you prefer?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Git seems to require a Unix shell to work on Windows. Which is one of
>>>> the things that make me think that git and Windows is not a match made
>>>> in heaven. It's a bit like having a crossplatform project that uses
>>>> Microsoft's C++ extensions, and requires linux contributors to run MSVC
>>>> through Wine to be able to build it. In other words, I would prefer
>>>> Bitbucket.
>>>>
>>>> But I don't expect to make big contributions, so it's not going to
>>>> matter much for the project.
>>>
>>> I have been thinking the same myself. I just haven't figured out how
>>> much of a problem it really is.
>>>
>>
>> Sorry, but I don't see the problem. There is TortoiseGit with very good
>> Windows explorer integration:
>> http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/
>> And, AFAIK, it's an official git Windows GUI at "Download Git" section:
>> http://git-scm.com/
>>
>
> Some of us don't want to install yet another shell extension. And I
> prefer working on the command line, much quicker and simpler.

Nothing prevents you from invoking git.exe from cmd.exe...

- Alex


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