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

[Regan Heath]

On Fri, 18 May 2012 08:58:23 +0100, Lars T. Kyllingstad  
<public at kyllingen.net> 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.)

I haven't yet tried to use GIT, but I'm a windows developer so I thought  
I'd share :p

I have done a fair amount of cross-platform work, but all the development  
itself occurred on a windows desktop using M$ developer studio, which is  
my IDE of choice.

I have worked with guys who decided they would be more comfortable, or  
productive on linux/freebsd/etc and so spent the time/effort to switch  
their development environment over.  What is certain, is that these guys  
were less productive initially as they got up to speed (learning a new  
IDE/editor/tool-chain etc) but once past it was less certain whether they  
were more, or less productive.  They were certainly happier, so I guess  
that as/is something.  I've always been happy on Windows, and while  
cmd.exe and scripting on windows is pretty rubbish it does what I need it  
to do, and if not I write a tool in C/C++/D to solve the lack.  I still  
haven't bothered to learn much/if any powershell, which looks like it  
would solve most of those issues - as it's basically C# in a shell.

I have dabbled with Cygwin and similar tools, but as I don't want to  
change my mindset to a linux/freebsd one they always annoy me.  I don't  
want/need to learn all that accompanies such tools/environments, I just  
want to solve the actual issue i.e. obtain source from GIT in this case.   
So, if I were to give GIT a go I would be looking for a nice integrated  
(into windows explorer) GIT GUI tool (some mentioned in this thread which  
I'll give a go), plus a command line tool as well for those times when I  
want to script certain operations.  Looking at some of the example GIT  
command line samples, it seems I would be scripting away as many details  
as I could - which is basically what a good GUI does for you, but in  
another way.

That's my 2(p|c) :)

R

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