On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 1:39 AM, Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> wrote:
on Tue Feb 12 2013, "Jeffrey Lee Hellrung, Jr." < jeffrey.hellrung-AT-gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 8:07 AM, Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> wrote: [...]
Is git for windows dead-simple to install yet?
I've always thought so.
IMO it wasn't always dead-simple. Too many choices of what to install, confusing documentation about what you're actually getting with each choice, etc., were all problems. I feel safe recommending http://windows.github.com, though. I guess I should test it myself before being so confident...
Here is my experience on this. I am a user of git who retrieve libraries and sometime patch them and provide PR on GitHub and Bitbucket, but I don't fully use git as I find Mercurial far more clear on the command line interface (and TortoiseHg helps a lot too but I suspect a future Windows release of SourceTree will change things radically). First I must say that git itself on windows is less obscure than it was few years ago. Still, errors Currently, I have 3 tools that deal with git: - TortoiseGit (+MSysGit) : it install everything but git so you have to install MSysGit first. Once done the GUI is pretty much inspired fromg - GitGUI -