There's new GIT instructions on Github now

[Don]

Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Fri, 20 May 2011 10:33:31 +0300, Don <nospam at nospam.com> wrote:
> 
>> You've really got to be a fanboy to claim that git is supported on 
>> Windows. Sure, it "works" -- in the same way that hammering a nail 
>> with a rock "works".
> 
> You've mentioned some fairly untypical usage,

Huh????

> so it's not surprising you 
> ran into so many problems. Why would you want to use the interactive 
> bash shell?

Because it has slightly fewer bugs than the other alternatives.

> I found that all git commands work fine from CMD. 

Not in my experience. Initially I tried that, but I *immediately* 
encountered severe data corruption (similar to bug #1 on my list).
I've just tried again:

C:\sandbox\dmd>git fetch walter
remote: Counting objects: 23, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (14/14), done.
remote: Total 14 (delta 11), reused 0 (delta 0)
Unpacking objects: 100% (14/14), done.
 From git://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dmd
    afd1728..50de957  dmd-1.x    -> walter/dmd-1.x
    145d753..eb38e18  master     -> walter/master

C:\sandbox\dmd>git status
ignoring REUC extension
# On branch ctfe5966
# Untracked files:
....<etc, this bit works OK>
#       test/runnable/xtest46.obj
#       test/test_results/
nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" to track)

C:\sandbox\dmd>git status
error: bad index file sha1 signature
fatal: index file corrupt

Words fail me...


> The only reason to use 
> bash that I can think of is to allow copy-pasting commands with 
> parameters quoted/escaped in a way incompatible to CMD. I'm not sure how 
> vim fits the toolchain at all, I think it's just provided as a bonus in 
> msysgit. If you need a proper *nix-like environment on Windows, have you 
> looked at Cygwin? For a long while, Cygwin was the only supported way to 
> run git on Windows.

Sorry, but your reply is a textbook example of fanboyism. On Windows, 
git is an utterly lousy product. And yes, I have both cygwin and Msys.