Am 21.05.2011 00:15, schrieb Nick Sabalausky: > "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? >
Yeah, Linus is not a corporation, he doesn't get paid to develop git, so why should he spend his precious time for Windows support that he (and his targeted userbase, i.e. Linux kernel developers) doesn't need?