Re: [Administrivia] On ruby and contrib/

From: Matthew Ruffalo <mmr15@case.edu>
Date: Jun 7, 2013, 18:45 UTC
Message-ID: <51B22A59.20607@case.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20130607183325.GC12924@google.com>

Jonathan Nieder wrote:

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> Ramkumar Ramachandra wrote:
>
>> I think he way forward on Windows is
> Why is there only one way forward?  Why do you get to pick it, given
> that you've said you're not interested in working on it?
>
> [...]
>>                                               I never understood why
>> users on Windows want to use something as POSIX'y as git.git.
> Plenty of users on Windows use a command line.  I have even been such
> a user from time to time.  I'm quite grateful for Dscho et al's work
> on making that less painful.
>
> Jonathan

I agree completely. It's rare that I use Windows now, but a few years 
ago I installed Cygwin on any machine that I would use in any serious 
capacity. I haven't needed to do this since I started to use Git; the 
Windows installer ships all of the POSIX utilities that I need (with the 
possible exception of 'tree', and the caveat that scp can't handle files 
 >= 2GB).

I'm very appreciative of the work that's gone in to Git for Windows, and from my perspective it's a pleasant coincidence that it includes a POSIX shell and associated tools.

MMR...