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My experience is still that git is at best a second class citizen on windows, in terms of installation, performance and usability. Is this no longer the case i
by glenjamin 15y ago
My experience is still that git is at best a second class citizen on windows, in terms of installation, performance and usability.
Is this no longer the case in some way?
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- roryokane 15y agoI have used Git on only Windows and Mac, and these are my experiences: Installation on Windows is easy – just use msysGit[1]. I don’t know about performance because I never worked with large repositories. For usability, all the command-line options and tools work as normal, and git gui is equally usable/unusable as it is on Mac. Mac does have a wider selection of GUI front-ends for Git, including my favorite, Tower, but Windows does have a few, including SmartGit, which is enough for simple usage. Windows’ command line program is harder to use than Mac’s Terminal, but the free program Console[2] gives it most features I need. [1] http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ [2] http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/console/
- zheng 15y agoI can't really speak to performance (I don't have any large projects where I could tell a difference), but the install is painless, and the windows git shell is really nice.
- baq 15y agowindows git performance on a 300KLOC, 8000+ file C++ project was IME very good - and that was 2-3 years ago. compared with g++, it was great.
- RyanMcGreal 15y agoI've been using msysgit at work for the past couple of years, and it works fine. There's a bit of an impedance mismatch between the command line orientation of git and the crippled command line experience on Windows, but msysgit comes with its own mini bash implementation, complete with ls, vi and a few other handy utilities.