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

[Alex Rønne Petersen]

On 18-05-2012 11:07, Norbert Nemec wrote:
> In my experience, TortoiseGIT is rather awkward to use. Anyone looking
> for a GUI for git should have a look at SmartGIT. It is commercial but
> zero cost for non-commercial use, available for Win/Mac/Linux and I
> don't know any other GUI that comes even close in quality.

I hadn't even heard of that one until reading this thread. Will 
definitely have a look at that.

>
> I guess there will always be some expert operations that require using
> the git CLI. This is just as usable on Windows as it is on Unix, but
> Windows users tend to avoid CLI in general. Anyhow, a user who migrates
> from SVN to GIT would not even miss that kind of operations.

Unfortunately, they'd be missing out on all the cool Git features then. ;)

>
> In general I don't see any aspect where GIT is less adapted to Windows
> than any other version control.
>
>
>
> On 18.05.2012 09:58, 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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