Hi, On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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. Thank you! > 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). Ah, that is right, we do not have an "Initialize Repository" button. And you're right, it could be just detected when trying to create a new repository and the directory exists already. Shawn? Ciao, Dscho
