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Re: Does Git run on Windows ?

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Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 6, 2006, 02:56 UTC
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On 7/6/06, Aaron Gray <angray@beeb.net> wrote:
> This maybe a stupid question but does Git run on Windows ?
Ask google :-) - try "git cygwin" - or look at the git wiki.
> Are there better options ?

Mercurial is quite similar (though not as fast), and may have an easier time on Windows. Not 100% sure about that.

> This maybe the crunch and reason to use CVS for now :(?)

If you are only supporting some users on Windows, you may be able to use git-cvsserver for them. Looks like a cvsserver but it is a GIT repository ;-)

cheers,
martin
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