[ruby-core:21126] Re: Happy new year and... moving Ruby development to Git?

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On Jan 2, 2009, at 5:59 PM, Luis Lavena wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Florian Gilcher =20
> <[e-mail]> wrote:
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>> On Jan 2, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
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>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We already set up quite a few tools around Subversion, so we need to
>>> port them to support git.  Yugui (who uses git herself) is in charge
>>> of the issue.  You can contact (and offer help to) her.
>>>
>>>                                                      matz.
>>>
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>> In addition to that, I want to mention that Windows support of GIT is
>> still sub-standard. I'm using the cygwin-build on a daily basis[1] =20=

>> and can
>> speak out of personal experience.
>> Configuring everything beyond the most simple things gets arcane =20
>> and hard.
>> If "ease of use" is the argument, it doesn't hold true on win.
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>> In the light of this, I would suggest an "official" mirror.
>>
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> I would disagree on that topic.
>
> I use on a daily basis msysGit (1.5.5 and 1.6.0) without issues. Uses
> notepad as editor or bundled vim too.
>
> Also, for the record, configured to use ssh and plink (PuTTY) and both
> work without issues.
>
> One important thing: disable autocrlf (false) since is the worse
> default msysGit developers could have introduced.

Well, thanks for the proposed help. At the moment, it works good for =20
my uses
(as a better perforce client). My point is: all this is too much. =20
Subversion is:
install =3D> use.

git takes a lot of thought to set up on windows. If it runs, it runs, =20=

thats true.
But it's not a tool that i would suggest any non-command-line-lover to =20=

use.
And Windows users usally are just that.

Also, it sometimes has the tendency of biting you in the back. In my =20
first
installation, the default hook to deny commits with trailing =20
whitespace was on.
Combined with the fact that it treated CRLF-endings as trailing =20
whitespace,
this really messed my windows development up. Sure, thats treatable. =20
But it
raises a lot of questions for the uninitiated.

Thats why I said: sub-standard. Its not entirely broken or unusable. =20
It just
feels like an afterthought (might be because of the fact that the whole
windows shell feels like an afterthought).

>>
>> [1]: Yes, I also tried the msysgit, which is even worse.
>
> Again: which part is worse? It lacks things like git-serve, but I can
> live without the need to "host" git repositories in my own computer.

The constant crashes. I don't know whether it works now. I stuck with
the cygwin version.

Regards,
Florian
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