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From: "Reece Dunn" <msclrhd@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: C# Git Implementation
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:45:00 +0000
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2008/11/28 JD Guzman <jd@jdguzman.com>:
> I read in the archives that there was once talk of porting Git over to C#
> and was wondering if anything ever came of this?  I realize there were some
> that didn't see the use for this but as Git is becoming more and more
> popular a more native implementation of Git for windows users would be a
> good endevour IMHO.

There were several efforts made, but these have fallen by the wayside.

Since then, the mingw/msys port has made progress to the point where
git will use native calls. Most - if not all of this - has been merged
back into upstream git as of version 1.6.

Git works well on Windows and msysGit even provides a native installer
that installs the necessary companion tools and libraries.

Therefore, there is already a native version of Git for Windows that
is always up-to-date with the latest Git functionality (since it is
the same sourcecode!)

BTW: Kudos to everyone involved in the Windows port.

- Reece