Re: Switching to git?

["Vesa Jääskeläinen" <chaac@nic.fi>]

Pavel Roskin wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 20:30 +0200, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
> 
>> Just leave cygwin out of the box... thank you!
>>
>> cygwin is one of the worst pieces of software that just does not work
>> correctly.
> 
> I wonder if you have actually used the native Windows port of CVS.

Do you want my copy of it ? CVS is quite freely available as native
version. And what the better, CVS integrates quite nicely to Eclipse.
Same goes for Subversion too.

>>  In my point-of-view portability means that you can use
>> software natively on some platform and it does not include installing
>> emulators or such to run software (like cygwin, wine).

> Speaking of Cygwin, my experience with it has been much more positive,
> especially if it's installed for one specific purpose like compiling
> some project (as opposed to a playground for UNIX wannabees).  I don't
> think it's a requirement that is going to deter anyone from working on
> GRUB.

You answered it yourself ;) IT just doesn't work for doing multiple
things. You have to carefully keep settings in working order if you want
to use it for multiple projects. Ever tried to compile Mozilla
Thunderbird under Windows?

> And if you need any GUI, qgit is a native Windows application compiled
> with Qt4.  The "Tortoise" like GUI doesn't make much sense for git, as
> it's file oriented, and git is changeset oriented.  The Eclipse plugin
> (egit) is available.

And have you really used the egit ? Eg. how well it works and so on. I
prefer not to jump between programs... It is just awkward.