[Kde-scm-interest] Git roadmap

[Robert Wohlrab]

Am Montag, 17. September 2007 22:26:58 schrieb Jaison Lee:
> It would be exceedingly helpful to hear from someone who is either
> currently using git in Windows or (even better) involved in porting
> efforts. Requiring Cygwin would be unfortunate, and although it could
> be tolerated if git ran very well, from what I've read it does not. My
> personal suspicion is that the only way git will run comparably well
> under Windows is if someone forks a native version, but that's just a
> suspicion. Real-world info would be helpful.

I've used git under windows with gygwin and msysgit (port of cygwin to mingw). 
The distribution of both is more or less unstable.
But the funniest part is when you try to use it under Vista with with enabled 
uac. Vista will detect that their are executables with the name *update*.exe 
and will require administrator rights to run them. In cygwin-bash or cmd you 
will only notice that nothing works as expected (when git tools use them you 
will get some error messages - but nothing when you start the tools 
directly).
When you have disabled the uac both will have some problems when you try to 
pull or push stuff. Most stuff work but on msysgit I wasn't able to use ssh 
tunneling at the beginning and sometimes when I run in curl problems when I 
tried http stuff. The cygwin distribution missed some stuff for git-svn and i 
I had some crashes which I never got under linux.
I think that msysgit is the future even when it has some problems at the 
moment - but they are known and some people are working on it to fix them. 
Hopefully it is good enough to merge again with the official git repository.
-- 
Robert Wohlrab