[phobos] [dmd-internals] svn-->git migration

[Don Clugston]

On 24 January 2011 09:54, Walter Bright <walter at digitalmars.com> wrote:
>
>
> Don Clugston wrote:
>>
>> Worth noting that on Windows, you *must* be in the git bash shell. If
>> you try this from the windows command prompt you get:
>> Initialized empty Git repository in
>> /cygdrive/c/dmd2dev/src/gitdmd/druntime/.git/
>> fatal: exec ssh failed.
>> fatal: The remote end hung up unexpectedly
>>
>>
>
> My general experiences with linux apps ported to Windows is that they suck
> because:
>
> 1. the main devs won't touch windows, so the ports are done by someone else
> who doesn't really understand the code
> 2. the app tends to have weird and wacky problems with / and \ in paths
> 3. running the app requires a boatload of other linux utilities that are
> also half-assed ports to windows
> 4. the app has a schizophrenic relationship with LF vs CRLF line endings
> (git has this problem)
> 5. the windows port tends to lag by multiple versions
> 6. the windows port randomly crashes and nobody cares (I'm looking at you,
> LaTeX)
> 7. documentation is lacking on the windows port
> 8. tech support is lacking for it

That's my experience, too. And there often seems to be a denial that
the support is so poor.  (This is why I had advocated Mercurial over
git).

> So I'm not even attempting to run git on Windows. Git was designed and
> written by Linux people, and it probably runs best on Linux.

Of course, it does. Nonetheless, we have to be able to develop on Windows.
We don't want D to end up with same crappy Windows non-support that git has!