From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] user-manual: Simplify the user configuration. Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:06:01 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: References: <1232561365-5919-1-git-send-email-felipe.contreras@gmail.com> <7v8wp4e5wn.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <94a0d4530901211319t8126611wc1437848631fe988@mail.gmail.com> <831vuvfh7t.fsf@kalahari.s2.org> <94a0d4530901220857q1027c05bs137dcc0244a1cc5a@mail.gmail.com> <83wscndv57.fsf@kalahari.s2.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Hannu Koivisto , Felipe Contreras , Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: Kyle Moffett X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Jan 25 13:07:12 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LR3lT-0007CP-6y for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:06:59 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753474AbZAYMFe (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jan 2009 07:05:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753275AbZAYMFe (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jan 2009 07:05:34 -0500 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:55714 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1752717AbZAYMFe (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jan 2009 07:05:34 -0500 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 25 Jan 2009 12:05:31 -0000 Received: from pD9EB3E0E.dip0.t-ipconnect.de (EHLO noname) [217.235.62.14] by mail.gmx.net (mp020) with SMTP; 25 Jan 2009 13:05:31 +0100 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+dGy0IJredL7KyKYE5mIF9/Kpeah8NHLzfA3f+gj CWKrs3FipWfESn X-X-Sender: gene099@racer In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.66 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Sun, 25 Jan 2009, Kyle Moffett wrote: > Actually, if msysgit really wanted to be a "native" windows program, ... it would - not use MSys, but MSVC++, - have a backing by a startup company, - not use any of Git's source code at all, but reimplement everything in closed source, - come with a shrink wrapped box and a huge manual, - do a lot of BS advertisement, - offer overprized courses for management, in fancy locations, - would cost around 50 dollars for a single license, - would cost around 1500 dollars for a site-wide license with free upgrades for 3 years and 2 free training courses, - be dog slow, eating resources like mad, and - crash frequently. Other questions? Ciao, Dscho