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

[Don Clugston]

On 30/05/12 21:49, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
> On 30-05-2012 21:46, Kagamin wrote:
>> On Friday, 18 May 2012 at 07:58:26 UTC, Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Of course, git is a Linux-centric tool (Linus wrote it to be inherently
>> unportable), hacked into windows environment and augmented with msys.
>
> You make it sound as if he was trying to hinder portability. He merely
> didn't care. Not the same thing.
>

He expressed some very strong views to it. Aggression not ambivalence.

I still can't avoid the feeling that if you're on Windows, you're a 
second-class citizen in the git world.


BTW I found what the problem with my installation was: if you manage you 
to have two different git versions installed (I had git installed via 
cygwin, and later installed stand-alone MSYS git) then running one on a 
repository created by the other will corrupt various files in the 
repository, most notably the index file.

It seems that git has no version numbers in its files. Instead, it 
silently corrupts them.