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An Illustrated Guide to Git on Windows (nathanj.github.com)
28 points by zvikara on Jan 16, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments



This is pretty useful, especially combined with the "Version control for designers" article: http://hoth.entp.com/output/git_for_designers.html


Nice, I've been pretty interested in git recently but since I use Windows primarily (flame me all you want, but I actually like Windows) it seemed like it wasn't worth the hassle. I will definitely have to try it now. I had thought earlier msys-git was kind of unsupported so my only option was cygwin but I guess that isn't so much of a problem if github seems to be endorsing it.


We've had a lot of people tell us that they're using Git on Windows with msysgit. It provides everything you need to be productive with Git and the install procedure is pretty slick. There's always room for improvement and a TortoiseGit [1] is in the works too, though still quite alpha.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/


How is performance with msysgit? The Cygwin port leaves a lot to be desired on larger projects.


git-svn still doesn't work in msysgit.


Ahh, that's a bit of a problem. That was something I was intending on using. But I'll still check it out and hope for msysgit to improve in the future.




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