Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial [LWN.net]

Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial

Posted Feb 24, 2010 19:10 UTC (Wed) by astrophoenix (guest, #13528)
In reply to: Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial by rahulsundaram
Parent article: Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial

does git have windows support? last I knew, it didn't. I hate windows, but
I work in a place where 80% of the devs use windows as their desktop. we
are currently adopting mercurial, because the windows folks can use
tortoiseHG.

that part aside, I can tell you that I've tried to learn git a couple
times, and it's hard. I know if I stuck with it I could learn it, but I
have to deal with low-level devs who don't even really understand why we
should be using a VCS in the first place.

one day, I believe they'll finally have the user interface to git cleaned
up to where it is easier to learn. until then, thank goodness for hg.

(Log in to post comments)

Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial

Posted Feb 24, 2010 19:29 UTC (Wed) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

Yes, git supports windows in two ways

1. you can run it under cygwin

2. you can run the msysgit (I think that's it's name) which is a windows native implementation of git.

Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial

Posted Feb 24, 2010 20:09 UTC (Wed) by dkrawchuk (subscriber, #21896) [Link]

msysgit gets you git plus the full mingw and msys. There is also a git port with just enough msys stuff to function properly.

Hg Init: a Mercurial tutorial

Posted Feb 24, 2010 21:36 UTC (Wed) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

There's a native Java port of git at that. See http://www.jgit.org/. It's
used by Eclipse, amongst others.

Git on Windows

Posted Feb 25, 2010 12:17 UTC (Thu) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link]

For Windows users, the git-sharp implementation of Git may be useful. It is a reimplementation of the code in C# and might fit more easily into Windows-flavoured .NET applications. I don't believe any GUI front end has yet been written, however.

Git on Windows

Posted Feb 24, 2010 20:26 UTC (Wed) by rfunk (subscriber, #4054) [Link]

There's also a TortoiseGit.

That said, I'm acquainted with a Windows guy who's used to TortoiseSVN and
stubbornly refuses to switch to git. (He tried it and didn't like it.) And
he likes to make changes on the production server.

Git on Windows

Posted Feb 24, 2010 21:47 UTC (Wed) by mikov (subscriber, #33179) [Link]

As a heavy Git user, my opinion about TortoiseGot is extremely negative.
I recently had to try TortoiseGit for another team member who is not so fluent in the command line and I think that it is a horrible abomination. It makes Git look bad and more complex than it is. I have been using Git for years and I like to think I know its ins and out; yet, I couldn't figure out how to do simple things with TortoiseGit.