On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 05:54:36PM +0100, Mike Williams wrote: > > Can someone use Git without installing any software? If yes, then we > > might be able to replace other methods. If no, then lots of people will > > prefer to stay with what they already have installed. > > Windows users wanting to use Git for things other than getting snapshots > (e.g. patch development) it can be a pain - they need to install and set > up Cygwin. Last time I looked Windows support was the neglected child > for various philosophical and technical reasons. Using Git will raise > the barrier for Windows users.
There's msysgit (http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/) which provides git (and git-gui) for Windows environment and does not depend on cygwin. I use it from time to time and am quite happy with it. -- http://www.mysza.eu.org/ | Everybody needs someone sure, someone true, PLD Linux developer | Everybody needs some solid rock, I know I do. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message from the "vim_dev" maillist. For more information, visit http://www.vim.org/maillist.php -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
