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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: GIT On Windows?
From:       Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles () elpauer ! org>
Date:       2010-03-19 9:39:27
Message-ID: 3af572ac1003190239r37a2b5ben6ec3d2d24eb971ce () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 3/19/10, Andreas Pakulat <apaku@gmx.de> wrote:
> On 19.03.10 12:09:10, lindsay.mathieson@gmail.com wrote:
>> Given the big move to git I've been researching git - tutorials etc.
>> One of the things that popped up was the impression that git is very
>> poorly supported under windows, to the point of not being practically
>> usable. Is this still true? if so isn't it a problem?
>
> Well, given the fact that the Qt devs are certainly working on windows
> with git and my own experience I think most of that information is
> simply outdated. Git on windows is slower than on linux currently, that
> however might even be the difference of filesystems, but other than that
> I haven't found anything that didn't work that you usually use
> "everyday". Except maybe (yeah there's always an exception ;) that
> cloning a local repository on your disk might need the git-bash-shell
> instead of the standard windows cmd.exe. I never looked closer at why
> that sometimes doesn't work though.

Some commands (git svn, git submodules, maybe some other) are not
available on Windows. Other than that, we use it at work and have no
significant problems.


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Pau Garcia i Quiles
http://www.elpauer.org
(Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)
 
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