From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2007 08:02:31 GMT
Subject: Re: Git-windows and git-svn?
Message-ID: <72D5CB06-9067-47C4-ABDF-4E1F6F4A679D@zib.de>
In-Reply-To: <EE16FE19-8C6C-4438-8E6E-EA6B87A898A7@zib.de>


On Nov 3, 2007, at 8:57 AM, Steffen Prohaska wrote:

> On Nov 3, 2007, at 8:19 AM, Pascal Obry wrote:
>
>> Steffen Prohaska a écrit :
>>>> The best Git port on Windows is the Cygwin one. I'm using git-svn
>>>> without trouble.
>>>
>>> But you _MUST NOT_ use Cygwin's textmode.
>>
>> Yes, of course! Who would use Cygwin's textmode :) ?
>
> People who I'm working with. Cygwin's converts CVS working
> copies to Windows line endings if you use textmode. And this
> is what they want.
>
> And as long as textmode is an option in Cygwin's installer
> user will select this option. And after it was removed from
> the installer it will still be there for a couple of years,
> until all existing installations finally disappear.
>
> Because of this situation, I started to work on msysgit.
> I need git without Cygwin.

And btw, no one told me that git is only working in Cygwin if
Cygwin is configured the right way. So I started to advertise
git on Cygwin and people came back to me and told me:

"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."

	Steffen