From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steven Grimm Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] Teach "git branch" about --new-workdir Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:22:16 +0800 Message-ID: <46A72458.1000004@midwinter.com> References: <46A5B5F5.6000202@trolltech.com> <7vd4yigmla.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <46A5DF1F.2030307@trolltech.com> <46A5FDF0.3060801@trolltech.com> <46A63EAA.6080203@trolltech.com> <46A654A6.5070802@trolltech.com> <20070724231529.GA29156@steel.home> <46A6F21D.2010306@trolltech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Marius Storm-Olsen , Alex Riesen , Junio C Hamano , "Shawn O. Pearce" , Julian Phillips , git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jul 25 12:22:37 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 1IDe0r-0001Dr-4i for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:22:37 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756473AbXGYKWX (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 06:22:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756338AbXGYKWX (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 06:22:23 -0400 Received: from 91.86.32.216.static.reverse.layeredtech.com ([216.32.86.91]:45537 "HELO midwinter.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1755698AbXGYKWW (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 06:22:22 -0400 Received: (qmail 11689 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2007 10:22:22 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=200606; d=midwinter.com; b=qFWE+AjZZVNbjcqd6e+Dj4O4/hzCvCj7CFwchxYSZ9dflNrqhvu3g9fm4yUAAM11 ; Received: from localhost (HELO sgrimm-mbp.local) (koreth@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Jul 2007 10:22:21 -0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (Macintosh/20070716) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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'm not a Windows user, but I know some, so I can maybe answer this: They do want that, but what they primarily want is a good DVCS they can use without trouble. I know at least two Windows people who took a look at the Win32 git, had trouble with it, then looked at Mercurial (which, whatever opinions you might have about it, does work better on Windows) and just stuck with that since it met their needs. The fact that Mercurial exists is a big disincentive for Windows people to work on git; unless they specifically want to interoperate with an existing git repository, hg gives them a lot of the same features that we enjoy in git land. And they don't have to fiddle with MinGW or Cygwin or anything like that. The distance between git and hg is small enough in their minds that it's not worth the unknown amount of effort to work on making git run better. At least, that's my take on it. Maybe an actual Windows git user will tell me I'm full of it... -Steve