Re: why not TortoiseGit

["Nigel Magnay" <nigel.magnay@gmail.com>]

>> But it doesn't look like a hard project to me, just requires stripping
>> out a lot of junk and re-patching callouts to a git executable (which
>> could be the standard git tools) and a minimal git library that knows if
>> files are dirty.
>
> I only wish that people would put their code where there mouth is.
>
> At least with GitCheetah, we have working code, _and_ an opportunity to go
> cross-platform.
>

Well, hey, I don't care there's no TortoiseGit. I looked at these
things back when I had colleagues stuck on Windows, and at the time
wanted to try and wean them off SVN.

The shell-icon overlay limit on Windows looked a significant problem
to me, and a good reason for at least re-using that bit of code (which
is common to even tortoiseCVS). It looked like it had been through a
significant number of iterations to get platform shell subtleties
right.

I even looked at wacky things, like using IKVM.Net and JGit to hack it
quickly, but that's a non-starter because of MS' stupid
one-clr-per-process.

That's what I found. Maybe it'll be useful for anyone else that wants
to continue. Since it's not an itch for me any more, and it won't feed
my children, until someone that cares enough does something there
won't be one.