MSysGit Stability

MSysGit Stability

[Joe Fiorini]

Hey all,

I'm going to be working with a small dev shop in the near future and
we would like to use Git for our project.  Two of us are on Macs, but
the other is on Windows.  I know the options are MSysGit or Git
through cygwin.  I'm curious which is better to use and if MSysGit is
even stable yet.  Does anyone have experience running Git on Windows?
Any experiences you can share?  Is MSysGit ready yet or should we
wait?

Thanks all!
Joe

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Re: MSysGit Stability

[Vincent Kergonna]

On Jul 15, 2008, at 23:58 , Joe Fiorini wrote:

> Hey all,

Hi,

>
>
> I'm going to be working with a small dev shop in the near future and
> we would like to use Git for our project.  Two of us are on Macs, but
> the other is on Windows.  I know the options are MSysGit or Git
> through cygwin.  I'm curious which is better to use and if MSysGit is
> even stable yet.  Does anyone have experience running Git on Windows?
> Any experiences you can share?  Is MSysGit ready yet or should we
> wait?

We are using MSysGit at work. We've had no problem with it so far  
(using it for about four months).  I think you can safely use MSysGit  
on Windows. Since it comes with a dedicated installer It is easier to  
install/upgrade than the cygwin version.

>
>
> Thanks all!
> Joe
>

	Vincent

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Re: MSysGit Stability

[Peter Krefting]

Joe Fiorini:

> I'm curious which is better to use and if MSysGit is even stable yet.
> Does anyone have experience running Git on Windows? Any experiences
> you can share? Is MSysGit ready yet or should we wait?

I have been using MSysGit actively for several projects since late last
year. The first time was a bit rough, but with the latest few version,
the MSysGit version has really matured, and I am happy to recommend it
anyone who wants to try out Git.

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Re: MSysGit Stability

[Dmitry Potapov]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 05:58:43PM -0400, Joe Fiorini wrote:
> I'm curious which is better to use and if MSysGit is
> even stable yet.  Does anyone have experience running Git on Windows?

Personally, I don't use it because I rarely use Windows, but I know
people who do since the beginning of this year, and in general they are
happy with it. It works faster than Cygwin version due to some Git
specific optimization put into mingw compatibility layer. So, the only
complain I heard so far is from people who got Cygwin on their computer,
and they don't like that MSysGit installs MSys, which means another set
of POSIX utilities such as bash but different version (usually more old)
and having a different HOME directory.

Dmitry

Re: MSysGit Stability

[Peter Harris]

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Joe Fiorini wrote:
>
>   Does anyone have experience running Git on Windows?

I use msysgit regularly. The core git is quite stable, although
occasionally peripherals have a bit of trouble. For example, git-svn
was broken recently.

Overall, I would recommend msysgit for anyone stuck on Windows.

Peter Harris

Re: MSysGit Stability

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Peter Harris wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Joe Fiorini wrote:
> >
> >   Does anyone have experience running Git on Windows?
> 
> I use msysgit regularly. The core git is quite stable, although
> occasionally peripherals have a bit of trouble. For example, git-svn
> was broken recently.

Note that git-svn will be removed in the next alpha release of msysGit, 
due to lack of people interested in fixing the thing.  No, complaining and 
asking others to do all the work does not account for "interest".

Ciao,
Dscho

Re: MSysGit Stability

[Pascal Obry]

Joe,

> I'm going to be working with a small dev shop in the near future and
> we would like to use Git for our project.  Two of us are on Macs, but
> the other is on Windows.  I know the options are MSysGit or Git
> through cygwin.  I'm curious which is better to use and if MSysGit is
> even stable yet.  Does anyone have experience running Git on Windows?

Yes, all the time on some quite large projects and since a year now. No 
problem, quite stable. I'm using Git on Cygwin that I build myself 
almost every day. I'm also working with git-svn as many projects I'm 
working on are based on Subversion. At least Git Cygwin is a perfect 
solution on Windows.

> Any experiences you can share?  Is MSysGit ready yet or should we
> wait?

I have never used MSysGit, so I won't comment.

Pascal.

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