On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Brion Vibber<[email protected]> wrote:
> On 8/28/09 6:49 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote:
>> POSIX emulation layers aren't a problem, it's the user experience that
>> matters in the end.  On Windows, I've used SVN extensively, Mercurial
>> a few times, and git even less.  My impression is that git is still
>> not nearly as nice on Windows as Mercurial or Subversion -- I don't
>> think it has the fancy context-menu integration and so on.  (Does it?
>> I haven't checked lately, so I might be outdated.)  If we switched to
>> git, we might annoy some TortoiseSVN users by forcing them to switch
>> to less convenient software.
>
> The impression I've gotten is that Windows integration with msysgit is
> at least partway there now, and has improved *hugely* in the last couple
> years. I haven't tried it myself yet though (and would certainly not
> push it on everybody without doing so first!)
>

It's _ok_. The command line usage is pretty solid and I haven't encountered
any issues there. The GUI interface sucks and is a complete waste of time.

-Chad

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