From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andy Parkins Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Teach "git branch" about --new-workdir Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:05:43 +0100 Message-ID: <200707251205.48235.andyparkins@gmail.com> References: <46A5B5F5.6000202@trolltech.com> <46A6F21D.2010306@trolltech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Johannes Schindelin , Marius Storm-Olsen , Alex Riesen , Junio C Hamano , "Shawn O. Pearce" , Julian Phillips To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jul 25 13:06:04 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IDegq-0005Qa-PW for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:06:01 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759413AbXGYLFz (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:05:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758838AbXGYLFy (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:05:54 -0400 Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.173]:12224 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758739AbXGYLFx (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:05:53 -0400 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j3so325436ugf for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:05:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=F1ngnbpVdqugvk55GdJ2l8ascKZ1ObJEfr7o38LGnvaXfMcYoXowaYfuoV/44AlvxNWRUkoPjZFZHyebwdprnpa/yAD1JQ45fSDEOaT/Qgyp3rHEwixoDWwLtLq+T+HtWSz/3R4l4PXQOGjKu8meoyoGPpDOuY0sbSbdisZ5asM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=R9Q6V05iirfqk4SHybtZR+EKR+S+vlPIVS5UdfyOD5g0PqWSH0yBgeq9P3I3NcRV++J2a6FQJ0d7RqtZZvhjqonyCaAYupPy/WGpjFYbR0LqYpzOO0cBIjoN4HPPpNdgOabuV0rSA2TYfC/yTr9NCY/e83i8RDyI62DoZLMUA9c= Received: by 10.66.224.3 with SMTP id w3mr1315656ugg.1185361552407; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:05:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dvr.360vision.com ( [194.70.53.227]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b33sm1154975ika.2007.07.25.04.05.50 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 04:05:51 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wednesday 2007 July 25, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > So this leaves me with the question: do Windows users really want a proper > native Windows support for Git? If the answer is yes, why don't they _do_ > (as in "not talk") something about it? I don't disagree with you at all - it is completely ridiculous for Windows users to moan about lack of Windows support without contributing any help. However, I think there is a good reason. I think it's a chicken and egg problem. The only reason I started making (small) contributions to git was because I was using it already. I didn't set out with the goal "to improve git"; I set out looking for a DVCS. Luckily for me, I use Linux so git worked pretty well for me straight away. The same is not true for Windows users. Even if we ignore the fact that Windows users are notoriously less open-source savvy; it's unlikely that we'll get any Windows contributions until there are some threshold number of developers using git on Windows. Open-source is all about scratching an itch, I can't see how Windows developers can get a gitch to scratch without being users of git first. On the positive side though, there surely must come a point when the Windows port is "good enough" that it will start to gather users and hence developers. Until then, I suppose it's just a matter of shouting "patch" every time a windows user asks for a feature :-) Andy -- Dr Andy Parkins, M Eng (hons), MIET andyparkins@gmail.com