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Nitpick, the article’s suggestion that Git badly supports Windows strikes me as about 2 decades out of date. I dev on native Windows (only using WSL for key too
by skrebbel 2y ago
Nitpick, the article’s suggestion that Git badly supports Windows strikes me as about 2 decades out of date. I dev on native Windows (only using WSL for key tools like sl and cowsay) and Git has Just Worked pretty much ever since I began using it.
Maybe the only speedbump is that you gotta remember to turn off the “autocrlf” setting, which has a default from way back when there were still editors on Windows that choked on \n.
- ryukoposting 2y agoHaving only recently dropped Windows as my OS of choice for professional matters, I can get behind this statement. On rare occasions, the line ending stuff got weird. Other than that, it was smooth sailing.
- pxc 2y agoWindows can't handle symlinks in a sane way because they're a source of privilege escalation exploits on Windows. So git repos with symlinks in the require a security degradation to use them natively. Performance also still sucks, although the VFS stuff in the Microsoft fork kinda helps I guess.
- Kenji 2y ago[dead]