On 2017-03-10 11:02-0500 Jim Dishaw wrote: > >> On Feb 21, 2017, at 4:45 PM, Alan W. Irwin <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote: >> >> @Jim, Phil, and Arjen: >> >> I used the git SF server just this morning with no issues. Also, for >> the reasons discussed in README.developers you should avoid all gui >> versions or "enhanced" versions of git (i.e., try to stick as much as >> possible to the real thing). Bearing those constraints in mind, that >> file recommends <https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit> for Windows >> users, but I just discovered from looking at that site that it has >> been obsoleted and msysgit developers now recommend using the "Git for >> Windows" <https://git-for-windows.github.io/> version of git instead. >> (I confirmed from that website it considers itself light-weight >> [check!] and it does have a command-line version [check!]). So please >> give the command-line version of that project a try, and let us know >> whether it works well for you (which would allow us to recommend that >> Windows version of git in our README.developers file). >> >
> I just pushed my first patch set after recovering from my VM failure. I’m using the Git for Windows and everything appears to have worked. Hi Jim: I am glad to hear you are up and running with "Git on Windows". I confirm your push process worked. Your good result motivated me to make additional changes (commit 658796c) to README.developers concerning git command-line availability (including replacing the msysgit reference with the "Git for Windows" reference). As part of the research for that update, I consulted <http://git-scm.com/book/en/Getting-Started-Installing-Git>, and it turns out that book has also now been updated to replace its previous reference to msysgit with "Git for Windows". So that book's recommendation and your own good experience leave me confident that we are doing the right thing to recommend "Git for Windows" in addition (now) to other Windows git command-line possibilities such as the git packages from either Cygwin or MinGW-w64/MSYS2. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Announcing the Oxford Dictionaries API! The API offers world-renowned dictionary content that is easy and intuitive to access. Sign up for an account today to start using our lexical data to power your apps and projects. Get started today and enter our developer competition. http://sdm.link/oxford _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
