Thanks for your response.

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Jim Raden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> myself, and occasionally over SMBFS. (Every time I do so, I cross my fingers
> and hope it works. So far it has.)

:-)

> MinGW and Cygwin are definitely *not* the same thing. They both provide

Good to know -- thanks.

> Depending on your tolerance for using seemingly arcane utilities, setting up
> an SSH server on Windows might be slightly intimidating, or not that bad,

> http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/  I found that this guide
[snip]
> http://github.com/guides/providing-your-ssh-key

I'm afraid, to my limited understanding, both of those URLs talk about
ssh clients not servers.  Please tell me if I'm wrong.

> I have to say that the boys (and girls?) on Msysgit have done a fine job
> recent versions of the installer. The past few builds I've been able to
> point-and-click install on a few machines painlessly.

True, but I need some easy, painless, way of pulling from Windows
developers repos.  At the moment, it's doable but I have to experiment
some more -- compare to the Linux experience, this is quite lacking.
(I'm sort of in a minority so I get to do all this investigation :-(

> Perhaps you *could* just use Github. There are other public, private, free,
> and commercial Git hosting services cropping up all over now. I have no

This is inside a firewall.  A somewhat restrictive one :-(

Regards,

Sitaram

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