Hi msysGit people, First, I'd like to thank you for porting git to windows. I decided to evaluate git in September for tracking the history of some scripts and routines. I never used any revision control system before, and only needed the local aspect of git (although I might use it to share with colleagues in the future). I had reduced my choice to git, mercurial and a third one whose name I forgot (probably related to subversion or SVK). I tried Git first because it was the closest to my needs (Free, easy to use, not big to install, developed and supported). I never actually tried the others because I found git good enough.
I have noticed what I think is a little bug with git-gui. It is easy to work around it, but it may be frustrating for new users, so it may be worth fixing for the final version. When launching git-gui, the first window allows to create a new repository, open a new repository, etc. It seems that if you have an existing folder with files and you want to create a repository to track this folder, it is not working: "Create New Repository" will complain that the directory already exists, while "Open Existing Repository" will complain that it is not a git repository. The solution is to use the command line and "git- init" into that folder. I have seen this with the last 3 or 4 git previews, and never tried before, because I had only one repository created at the time git-gui did not work yet. I think "Create New Repository" should accept to work on an existing folder (only doing git-init in that case). Best regards, Olivier
