On Oct 13, 2007, at 9:12 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
From: Benoit SIGOURE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 19:18:42 +0200 Cc: Make Windows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, bug-make <bug-make@gnu.org>I frequently read Git's ML and it seems rather stable on Cygwin.Which for me is a turn-off, because I don't want to install Cygwin.
Fair enough.
The MSYS version should work too, even though I haven't tried it personally.MSYS is just a fork of Cygwin, so it doesn't solve my problem above. Is there a good native Windows port of GIT?
http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/WindowsInstallGit was designed the way we're used to design traditional UNIX programs: lots of small programs, each performing a simple task. Most of the "low level commands" (called "plumbing") are wrapped up in nicer, higher level interfaces ("porcelain"), and they happen to be written in Shell script (for many of them at least). So I don't think you can seriously use Git without having at least a minimal POSIX environment.
On the other hand, Git has lots of GUIs, one of which (qgit) is written with Qt. Therefore, if it was written properly, it ought to work on Windows too (thanks Qt!). Gitk should also probably work (Tcl/Tk works on Windows AFAIK). I don't know about git-gui.
Let us know. Anyways, it's only a matter of time before proper Windows support will be added straight into Git, I think. Demand for a good Windows port is high and once Git will be entirely librarified, it will be easy to write lots of tools on top of it (like a TortoiseGit-like interface or whatever).
Cheers, -- Benoit Sigoure aka Tsuna EPITA Research and Development Laboratory
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