On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 5:31 AM, Laurens Van Houtven <_@lvh.cc> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 12:22 PM, David <david@silveregg.co.jp> wrote:
Most people who stay on windows do not find cygwin or even CLI tools an
acceptable solution.

So, the argument isn't that git is worse on Windows than it is on *nix: it's just that Windows users don't want to use CLI tools?
 
cheers,
David
 
cheers
lvh


Not in my opinion.  I find hg, bzr, and svn all easier to use on Windows than git, and I use them all from the command line.

For me the problem is that, while bash is certainly a superior "language" than Windows command language (a la cmd.exe),
bash does not always map to Windows concepts/assumptions very nicely.  This often leads to things occurring in unexpected
(or at least unintuitive) ways (for Win32 users).  Even though I use bash daily on Linux machines, I find using bash on Win32 painful
(yes, even more painful than cmd.exe, which is really saying something!).

Git requires bash.  This makes it painful for me (on Windows).

Also, Git _is_ worse on Windows than it is on *nix.  It's just not as bad as it _used_ to be.  It's functional.  It works.  But it is difficult to deal with,
and a lot of Windows users I have talked to (as well as myself, of course) just don't like using it.

I'm not necessarily saying that that means Twisted shouldn't use Git.  But it _should_ be considered as a factor.

Kevin Horn