On 25/11/10 07:41, Lester Caine wrote:
Patrick ALLAERT wrote:
2010/11/25 Lester Caine<les...@lsces.co.uk>:
Have you used git on Windows Pierre ... It is a joke!
Yes one can get it to work, but only if you do not use anything that
the git
cygwin install destroys! And as yet there is no consensus on getting it
working cross platform in things like Eclipse.
At least hg works out of the box on both linux and windows, but like git
THAT does not properly support sub-repo's and makes managing nice
modularly
constructed projects like PHP almost impossible.
Trying to work with projects that write modular PHP code in either
git or hg
is simply not currently practical ... especially when half of your
user base
is still tied to windows!
Git on Windows problems belong to the past since a while now:
* mSysGit
Provide you don't use cygwin ALREADY on your machine !!!
Install mSysGit and existing packages stop working ...
While I don't use Windows, I do know that msysgit keeps things separate
and shouldn't clobber your cygwin setup. Perhaps you have an issue with
your path?
The state of Git on Windows is, yes, far from perfect, but certainly
improving. A quick search yields up some nice looking tools for Git on
Windows:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-windows-git-clients-git-job/
SmartGit looks pretty good (non-commercial use).
Git on Windows is not 100% friendly, but is workable. We have people
using it everyday at work here.
* TortoiseGit
TortoiseHg does it RIGHT and works on both Linux and Windows.
TortoiseGit does not work on Linux ...
I use Linux and quite frankly I couldn't give a damn about things like
Tortoise*. Such tools are nice enough for Windows where command prompt
is so desperately useless, but they are no substitute for a real
understanding of the command line interface of the SCM tool.
I have a decent "command prompt" in Linux and it is a hell of a lot
quicker (and, I would say, easier) to use.
In short - I'm not sure why you're trying to slag off Git because
TortoiseGit is no good for Linux. What is wrong with git-gui, gitk or gitg?
Personally I run hg since I need cross platform capability for my
customers, and hggit quite happily links to github but all of this has
to be managed outside Eclipse since none of those tools work reliably.
And we STILL have the problem of handling modular projects since neither
do 'sub-repo' reliably. This area seems to be in a similar state of
chaos to PHP with different factions all pushing their own agendas. Both
git and hg are targeting compiled applications and ignore handing
scripted applications like php, python, ruby and the like. 'You fix the
problems when you build a project' simply does not work when you do not
have anything to build! So while it may work for building PHP as a
single program, a packaged distribution is a different matter.
Ultimately I'm a +1 for Git. The proper branching/merging would solve
so many issues that have been addressed recently on the mailing list
regarding the pollution of trunk with incomplete and broken features, as
well as BC breakage by feature removal...
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