Feedback on native Win32 git from a Perl perspective

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http://use.perl.org/~Alias/journal/33825

A quick review of native Win32 git provoked by the current conversation amoungst the Perl core maintainers about changing version control systems and whether to go with svn or git (the main two candidates).

This review is utterly unrelated to whether or not central or distributed version control is better, and utterly unrelated to the features of git itself, and refer only to the native Win32 git installer/package itself.

For reference, the reviewer (me) has 10 years of experience with Perl development across both Windows, Linux, BSD, Solaris, Mac (old and new).

I'm also a CPAN administrator, Perl toolchain maintainer, author of about 150 cross-platform Perl packages on the CPAN, and creator of the "Strawberry Perl" Win32 Perl distribution and win32.perl.org website.

If you have any follow up, please CC me.

Thanks

Adam Kennedy