On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 1:34 AM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
> [subject changed] > > 2009/9/5 Marco Schuster <[email protected]>: > > On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Chad <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Wheee! TortoiseSVN indeed spoils us Windows users, as it's made > >> version control so easy that...well...a Windows user can do it ;-) > > > If Windows had a decent command line / shell (has its suckyness improved > for > > Win7?), I bet that TortoiseSVN had far less downloads... it simply is the > > only way to make SVN usable on Windows. > > > That or Cygwin. (git works well in Cygwin too. At my last workplace we > made damn sure to put Cygwin on our few Windows servers with sshd > running.) Cygwin made even command-line CVS usable. Yup, cygwin is really cool... but you still need a proper GUI frontend. Windows's cmd simply sucks compared to e.g. xterm or konsole, which, of course, both can be run in cygwin. But getting X output via cygwin is a damn nightmare of a task. Marco -- VMSoft GbR Nabburger Str. 15 81737 München Geschäftsführer: Marco Schuster, Volker Hemmert http://vmsoft-gbr.de _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
