From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adam Kennedy Subject: Feedback on native Win32 git from a Perl perspective Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:04:15 +1000 Message-ID: <46A06C7F.5010601@phase-n.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Jul 20 14:25:35 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 1IBrY7-0000v6-A2 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:25:35 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758194AbXGTMZc (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:25:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758032AbXGTMZc (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:25:32 -0400 Received: from pecan.exetel.com.au ([220.233.0.17]:56465 "EHLO pecan.exetel.com.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756416AbXGTMZb (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:25:31 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 15671 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 08:25:31 EDT Received: from 106.135.233.220.exetel.com.au ([220.233.135.106] helo=[192.168.37.113]) by pecan.exetel.com.au with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1IBnTD-0004aD-PL for git@vger.kernel.org; Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:04:15 +1000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Windows/20070509) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: It was suggested that this link be fired through to this address. http://use.perl.org/~Alias/journal/33825 A quick review of native Win32 git provoked by the current conversation amoungst the Perl core maintainers about changing version control systems and whether to go with svn or git (the main two candidates). This review is utterly unrelated to whether or not central or distributed version control is better, and utterly unrelated to the features of git itself, and refer only to the native Win32 git installer/package itself. For reference, the reviewer (me) has 10 years of experience with Perl development across both Windows, Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac (old and new). I'm also a CPAN administrator, Perl toolchain maintainer, author of about 150 cross-platform Perl packages on the CPAN, and creator of the "Strawberry Perl" Win32 Perl distribution and win32.perl.org website. If you have any follow up, please CC me. Thanks Adam Kennedy