On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 12:06 AM, Timwi <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hahaha... “simple instructions” :-D. All it says is: > > “Under Windows, we recommend using TortoiseGIT, which is free software.” > > And that’s it. Nice “simple instructions” there.
We're not reproducing the helpfile for another GUI app. We do however, also include instructions on that same page for checking out a tree using the command line tools as most *nix users would use, and as can be used with Msysgit. It's not quite the one-liner you imply. > So I tried using this “MSysGit” instead, which admittedly finally did the > job, but only by installing a whole frickin’ Linux-like shell in which it > could run. I managed to check out the pgAdmin source with that, but once I > exited that shell, I can now no longer find any way to bring it back — there > is a batch file in its installation directory, but that only opens another > cmd.exe window. Very useful. > > Trying to use git.exe itself directly just gives this useless error: > > http://bit.ly/jPRHTh > > One would have thought that installing a program with all its dependencies > should be a solved problem by now. Clearly git has not quite arrived in the > 21st century yet. > > Now, don’t get me wrong — I’m not saying any of this is your fault :). But > it *is* a problem and it *does* pose a lot of hoops to jump through. I've never had any problems like that with msysgit. It's worked well for me on multiple XP and Windows 7 machines, in the standard cmd.exe shell, just using a straightforward installation. I've never heard of any of our other contributors having problems either. Perhaps there's something unusual about your machine? -- Dave Page Blog: http://pgsnake.blogspot.com Twitter: @pgsnake EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgadmin-hackers mailing list ([email protected]) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgadmin-hackers
