Re: Why I love GIT but use Subversion

Jörg W Mittag <Joerg.Mittag@Web.De> writes:

These are all reasonable wishes.

The core level of git (which is written in C) is designed to be usable as a building block for platform native IDE. The primary audience of git so far has been POSIX envirnoment, and the command line interface we have in core git was one acceptable form of "platform native IDE". I know that is not a usual form of IDE in some other world (most notably in MS circles).

I do not speak for others on this mailing list, but given the background of how git came about into existence, which pretty much defines the majority of the habitants of this mailing list, I doubt there are many people who know git well enough and have enough experience and motivation to implement "platform native IDE" for MS platform. Certainly I cannot imagine Linus and/or myself doing Windows GUI programming to make git integrate into MS environment seamlessly. You probably are a lot more familiar and qualified to implement such than myself.

So please step forward, enlist MS comrades, and start hacking, if you want MS native git. If you need help in understanding the core git data structures, algorithms, and functions, I may well be able to help you. If you have difficulties interfacing with Visual Studio on the other hand that is not something I can help you with, although some others on the list might.

Thank *you* for sharing these thoughts.