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argument to use something else instead of switching to Git: unpredictably unstable on Windows

argument to use something else instead of switching to Git: unpredictably unstable on Windows

Posted Jun 20, 2013 2:15 UTC (Thu) by Fowl (subscriber, #65667)
In reply to: argument to use something else instead of switching to Git: unpredictably unstable on Windows by mathstuf
Parent article: Subversion 1.8.0 released

Microsoft actually support Git in Visual Studio (and their github equiv) now.

Apparently they contribute to libgit2 also, so if git on Windows wasn't working right once, I'd imagine it does now.


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argument to use something else instead of switching to Git: unpredictably unstable on Windows

Posted Jun 20, 2013 11:41 UTC (Thu) by imz (guest, #74088) [Link] (3 responses)

I'm not sure which library msysgit uses (the "Git for Windows" package)...

Perhaps, a client using libgit2 could be expected to be more stable on Windows (compared to msysgit, if msysgit is not using libgit2).

I simply chose the most basic, non-custom client inthe hope that it is the one that can be believed to be the most stable one, the one tested a lot.

argument to use something else instead of switching to Git: unpredictably unstable on Windows

Posted Jun 20, 2013 19:56 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link] (2 responses)

I think msysgit is just git, perl, coreutils, and maybe a few more things bundled together. When git itself moves to libgit2, I'd expect msysgit to use it.

argument to use something else instead of switching to Git: unpredictably unstable on Windows

Posted Jun 20, 2013 20:06 UTC (Thu) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link] (1 responses)

Is git expected to start using the libgit2 library? Any pointers would be useful.

argument to use something else instead of switching to Git: unpredictably unstable on Windows

Posted Jun 20, 2013 20:13 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

ISTR some rumblings on the git.git roundups from the Development page of the weekly before. I don't remember seeing anything recent though.


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