From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2009-01-05T20:09:57+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:21130] Re: Happy new year and... moving Ruby development to Git?

On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Meinrad Recheis
<meinrad.recheis@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Florian Gilcher <flo@andersground.net>
> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>>>> [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.
>
> I played around with msysGit 1.5 and 1.6 yesterday on winXP and had a very
> bad experience. 'git pull' ends up in an endless loop asking for the
> passphrase which makes it completely unusable.

That's because you tried to checkout a private (ssh) repository and
lack the proper ssh authorization and keys?

I had that working with PuTTY (Pageant) and even with the bundled ssh
without issues.

> The cygwin git packages work like a charm.

Yes, a beautiful and charming snail.

> Both msysGit and cygwinGit come with a tk gui which is helpful for
> visualization of branches and all but it is not quite user friendly IMO.

gitk is great for quick looking, is not like TortoiseSVN or anything like that.

Anyhow, what is the point of this discussion? How many Windows users
will hack in the Ruby source code?

And those who does, I guess they are quite command-line savvy.

I know Git has a complex and less userfriendly command line interface,
but the whole discussion was not Git alone but the set of tools around
it.

-- 
Luis Lavena
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