Re: Using Git with windows

[Tim Visher <tim.visher@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 2:23 AM, Tariq Hassanen <tariq.hassanen@gmail.com> wrote:

> I know there are some ports for it on windows such as msysGit and it
> can also be done on Cygwin.

IMHO, Git under cygwin's pretty nice.  I tried using MSysGit as well
and didn't feel like it was quite as good as just building Git under
cygwin.  I also run Git on an Mac at home and while it's clearly
faster, Git under Cygwin still beats the pants off of SVN under
Cygwin.

> But is there a way around this if i run a linux VM with Git running
> and mount a windows ntfs partition ?

Would this really be faster?  I don't have a whole lot of experience
with virtualization, but isn't Cygwin 'basically' doing this already?
I mean, it's attempting to emulate linux system calls so that linux
software can be recompiled to run on o a Windows box.

> Any ideas? Or am i best sticking with SVN until the ports are mature enough?
> Tariq

I wouldn't bother waiting.  Git is plenty mature on Windows, either
via msys or via Cygwin.  There's no real reason to delay. :)

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