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Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> writes:

> I'm not trying to bash Windows users.  I'm just saying that there's
> definately a large user base for SCMs such as CVS who just want
> to check in the latest version of a file they have to maintain.
> Many of these people are afraid of a command prompt.  Asking them
> to install Cygwin just to check in a file is a difficult challenge.

Export your git repository via git-cvsserver and have them use
TortoiseCVS.  Such "maintain the tip and that is the only thing
what interest me" people do not even need to know the backend is
git.