Re: Why I love GIT but use Subversion

[Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>]

Jörg W Mittag <Joerg.Mittag@Web.De> writes:

> Please, make those reasons go away.

These are all reasonable wishes.

The core level of git (which is written in C) is designed to be
usable as a building block for platform native IDE.  The primary
audience of git so far has been POSIX envirnoment, and the
command line interface we have in core git was one acceptable
form of "platform native IDE".  I know that is not a usual form
of IDE in some other world (most notably in MS circles).

I do not speak for others on this mailing list, but given the
background of how git came about into existence, which pretty
much defines the majority of the habitants of this mailing list,
I doubt there are many people who know git well enough and have
enough experience and motivation to implement "platform native
IDE" for MS platform.  Certainly I cannot imagine Linus and/or
myself doing Windows GUI programming to make git integrate into
MS environment seamlessly.  You probably are a lot more familiar
and qualified to implement such than myself.

So please step forward, enlist MS comrades, and start hacking,
if you want MS native git.  If you need help in understanding
the core git data structures, algorithms, and functions, I may
well be able to help you.  If you have difficulties interfacing
with Visual Studio on the other hand that is not something I can
help you with, although some others on the list might.

> Thank you for bearing with me through this long rant.

Thank *you* for sharing these thoughts.