Re: Git-windows and git-svn?

From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date: Nov 3, 2007, 09:47 UTC
Message-ID: <591E16CE-E303-4971-B57D-D84E883BB01D@zib.de>
In-Reply-To: <472C2FF8.2000603@obry.net>

On Nov 3, 2007, at 9:23 AM, Pascal Obry wrote:

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> Steffen Prohaska a écrit :
>> "What crappy tool are you suggesting to use. It's not
>> even capable of cloning it's own development repository.
>> I'll not use that tool. Don't steal my time."
>
> Well it's not because people don't understand how Cygwin is working  
> that
> it is to be taken for granted that Cygwin/Git is crap! As I said  
> git svn
> is only working on Cywgin AFAIK. I'm using Cygwin/Git on many
> repositories without problem. So experience may vary :)

Right. The experience should be good if you use binmode.

But never use textmode. You'll not get an error right away. At first git seems to work. But later it reports weird errors. The experience is really bad. Don't do that.

And if you advertise git on Cygwin please tell people to avoid textmode. It is an important detail.

	Steffen