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Sure, and I'm one of them. It's not exactly startling news in 2012 that a lot of people prefer the git/hg model. Hell, I prefer it myself! But I've got a com

by colomon 15y ago

Sure, and I'm one of them. It's not exactly startling news in 2012 that a lot of people prefer the git/hg model. Hell, I prefer it myself! But I've got a complete svn ecosystem set up here, with 44 projects in a single svn repository, automatic offsite backups, and hundreds of checked-out directories spread across five (or more?) computers with five distinct operating systems. As far as I can see, the one-time costs of moving over completely dwarf the relatively small benefits I would gain from using a better branching model.

crosvenir 15y ago
I'm one of them as well. I'd also love to use git. The issue I have we it is that I feel like the "port" to Windows was more of a crowbar sort of operation rather than a well thought out plan to make a program cross-platform compatible. Install TortoiseSVN. Done. Install TortoiseHg. Oh it needs something else. What's it called? Ok. I need msysGit. I'll get that. Ok, they're all in beta? Whatever I'll just get one. What? It runs on top of Cywin? And on, and on... Am I missing something here or is it really that convoluted? I work with non-programmers (engineering types) who program and I need it to be easy for them. Any recommendations?
- jurre 15y ago
  The guide at github[0] is pretty easy to follow. I've done it on some of my fellow students' pc's a couple of times during a project, but most of them switched to Ubuntu after a couple of weeks. [0]http://help.github.com/win-set-up-git/ http://help.github.com/win-set-up-git/
  - crosvenir 15y ago
    This is a really great setup tutorial that I haven't seen before. Thanks!
- RobAtticus 15y ago
  I assume you meant TortoiseGit? Otherwise, I think I spot the problem. (Just pointing out because TortoiseHg actually is fairly painless to install if you want to use Mercurial on Windows, and the typo might confuse some)
  - crosvenir 15y ago
    Wow. Yeah. TortoiseGit. Wherever my brain is I hope it's happy and it writes soon. Thanks!

by colomon 15y ago

crosvenir 15y ago

I'm one of them as well. I'd also love to use git. The issue I have we it is that I feel like the "port" to Windows was more of a crowbar sort of operation rather than a well thought out plan to make a program cross-platform compatible. Install TortoiseSVN. Done. Install TortoiseHg. Oh it needs something else. What's it called? Ok. I need msysGit. I'll get that. Ok, they're all in beta? Whatever I'll just get one. What? It runs on top of Cywin? And on, and on... Am I missing something here or is it really that convoluted? I work with non-programmers (engineering types) who program and I need it to be easy for them. Any recommendations?

jurre 15y ago
The guide at github[0] is pretty easy to follow. I've done it on some of my fellow students' pc's a couple of times during a project, but most of them switched to Ubuntu after a couple of weeks. [0]http://help.github.com/win-set-up-git/ http://help.github.com/win-set-up-git/
- crosvenir 15y ago
  This is a really great setup tutorial that I haven't seen before. Thanks!
RobAtticus 15y ago
I assume you meant TortoiseGit? Otherwise, I think I spot the problem. (Just pointing out because TortoiseHg actually is fairly painless to install if you want to use Mercurial on Windows, and the typo might confuse some)
- crosvenir 15y ago
  Wow. Yeah. TortoiseGit. Wherever my brain is I hope it's happy and it writes soon. Thanks!