On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Curtis Jewell<lists.perl.module-bu...@csjewell.fastmail.us> wrote: > I know it's not horribly important, but switching to git, especially > without using something like github, is almost a non-starter for a > Windows Perl user. > > The reason being that Msys-git (the one native version of git for > Windows) installs its own perl and throws it in the path, which is not a > good thing. I've had to support someone on #win32 who didn't realize > that at first.
It's almost a non-starter, but it does start with a little foresight. (a) Don't have the msys-git command line tools installed in your PATH (b) Always use GitGUI I don't use the command line tools because they too often coredump due to something in the port or some interaction with some other dll. (Oddly, the Logitech webcam driver is known to be a problem for Mingw/Msys compiled tools). Though I hate giving up command line tools, GitGUI has been pretty much bullet proof for me. (The exception has been compacting objects, which coredumps.) For anyone looking to get started with Git on Windows, I recommend http://nathanj.github.com/gitguide/tour.html -- David
