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Re: MSysGit Stability

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Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 16, 2008, 10:42 UTC
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On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 05:58:43PM -0400, Joe Fiorini wrote:
> I'm curious which is better to use and if MSysGit is
> even stable yet.  Does anyone have experience running Git on Windows?

Personally, I don't use it because I rarely use Windows, but I know people who do since the beginning of this year, and in general they are happy with it. It works faster than Cygwin version due to some Git specific optimization put into mingw compatibility layer. So, the only complain I heard so far is from people who got Cygwin on their computer, and they don't like that MSysGit installs MSys, which means another set of POSIX utilities such as bash but different version (usually more old) and having a different HOME directory.

Dmitry
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  3. Peter KreftingJul 16, 2008
  4. Dmitry PotapovJul 16, 2008
  5. Peter HarrisJul 16, 2008
  6. Johannes SchindelinJul 16, 2008
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