"Daniel Gibson" <metalcae...@gmail.com> wrote in message news:ir6jup$1he8$1...@digitalmars.com... > Am 20.05.2011 22:26, schrieb Nick Sabalausky: >> "Don" <nos...@nospam.com> wrote in message >> news:ir55o4$2lhg$1...@digitalmars.com... >>> >>> Here's my list of bugs in git for windows which I found in the first >>> fews >>> days of using it: >>> >>> 1. Windows git's handling of paths is completely screwed. >>> If you've checked out your working copy into (say) c:\foo\bar\dmd >>> and you rename a parent directory, eg to c:\foo2\bar\dmd, your working >>> copy gets hosed. >>> Maybe this happens only after you've performed a git operation; didn't >>> experiment with it much. >> >> That one's kind of funny, actually. Linus himself pretty much considers >> SVN >> to be total shit, and yet SVN handles that perfectly fine, while his >> program >> apperently doesn't. >> >> > > You wouldn't really expect that Linus cares about Windows support, would > you? I guess on Linux git works really well (haven't used it much yet). > > Microsofts VCS (Visual Sourcesafe or something like that) won't work > properly on Linux either..
Microsoft is a corporation. So by definition, self-interested (Besides, VSS is rightfully dead anyway). Linus isn't a corporation and he isn't selling Linux. But he is, presumably, a self-respecting software developer and not a self-righteous ass that's out to throw his weight around at any whim (or is he?). So why not?