From: Ken Bloom <kbloom@...>
Date: 2011-01-07T06:08:18+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:34198] Re: Moving to Git?

Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 02:37, Luis Lavena <luislavena@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Nikolai Weibull <now@bitwi.se> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 19:57, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> 
>>>> Some might require better Windows support.
> 
>>> (Before anyone laments Cygwin or MSYS, seeing as how Ruby itself is so
>>> POSIX-centric, requiring better Windows support than Cygwin/MSYS would
>>> sound weird to me.)
> 
>> So, when we talk about better Windows support for Ruby, we talk about
>> *native* support, not through an emulation layer.
> 
> My point was that using Git on Windows may require some command-line
> knowledge, that is, there???s no flashy GUI tied to some IDE or context
> menu, but that this shouldn???t matter, seeing as how Ruby is so very
> tied to the POSIX way of doing things that developers seriously
> considering helping out aren???t afraid of using the command line,
> either through Cygwin or through MSYS.

But there are git GUIs for windows, including:

* TortoiseGit (http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/)
* Git Extensions (http://code.google.com/p/gitextensions/
    with Visual Studio support)
* egit (for eclipse) 
* SmartGIT (http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/index.html
    commerical software)

--Ken

-- 
Chanoch (Ken) Bloom. PhD candidate. Linguistic Cognition Laboratory.
Department of Computer Science. Illinois Institute of Technology.
http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/