Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD

From: Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 8, 2007, 16:41 UTC
Message-ID: <30e4a070708080941j49b3d58cxc39bbe65f2fee9d5@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <A2397231-1B81-4AD4-87CB-8FF8FB9BA89C@zib.de>

On 8/8/07, Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> wrote:

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> The bottom line for me is, git does not yet support Windows in a
> usable way for the organizations that I need to convince.
>
>         Steffen
>

Have you considered jumping in to help on the msys git port Johannes Schindelin is working? He has very generously offered to do essentially everything except find bugs, the latter because he does not actually use Windows so can't, and is clearly putting a great deal of effort into this. A stable and complete Windows port may be much closer than you think.

Mark

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