[Python-Dev] PEP 481 - Migrate Some Supporting Repositories to Git and Github

[Paul Moore]

On 30 November 2014 at 16:08, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>> On Nov 30, 2014, at 7:31 AM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 29 November 2014 at 23:27, Donald Stufft <donald at stufft.io> wrote:
>>> In previous years there was concern about how well supported git was on Windows
>>> in comparison to Mercurial. However git has grown to support Windows as a first
>>> class citizen. In addition to that, for Windows users who are not well aquanted
>>> with the Windows command line there are GUI options as well.
>>
>> I have little opinion on the PEP as a whole, but is the above
>> statement true? From the git website, version 2.2.0 is current, and
>> yet the downloadable Windows version is still 1.9.4. That's a fairly
>> significant version lag for a "first class citizen".
>>
>> I like git, and it has a number of windows-specific extensions that
>> are really useful (more than Mercurial, AFAIK), but I wouldn't say
>> that the core product supported Windows on an equal footing to Linux.
>>
>> Paul
>
> I think so yes. I may be wrong, however while 1.9.4 may be the latest
> downloadable version of git for Windows, there is no downloadable
> version of the Linux clients at all, they just tell you to go use
> your package manager which for instance is version 1.7 on Debian. On
> OS X the latest version is 2.0.1.

OTOH, presumably you can build your own copy of git from source on
Linux/OSX. I haven't tried this on Windows but it looks pretty
difficult (you start by downloading the msysgit development
environment and go from there). Also, if it's easy to produce binaries
for 2.2.0 on Windows, why haven't the msysgit project (still an
external project, to an extent, AFAICT) done so?

Paul