On 18-05-2012 10:58, Joseph Rushton Wakeling wrote:
On 18/05/12 09:58, Lars T. Kyllingstad wrote:
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?
I'm mostly a Linux-user, but I have played with Git on Windows and don't
recall it being particularly different from the Linux experience. I'd
have thought the main issue would be that Windows-oriented people aren't
used to using command-line stuff (in my experience this can extend to
devs as well as regular users).
I think that's the primary issue - Windows devs expect a full-blown,
well-developed, and concise GUI. Git, frankly, doesn't have one. And I
think that using a GUI for Git doesn't make an awful lot of sense;
controlling the branching model, submodules, remotes, the stash,
rebasing, etc is pretty hard from a GUI compared to the CLI (in my own
not so humble opinion).
I like to think that GUIs and CLIs both have their uses. I use the CLI
to do most Git work, but *strongly* prefer `git gui` to do pre-commit
review, staging, reverting, etc.
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Alex Rønne Petersen
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