Re: ANN: Git for Windows 1.7.0.2 preview 20100309

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 10, 2010, 16:44 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1003101741350.3006@intel-tinevez-2-302>
In-Reply-To: <vpqtyso5nfl.fsf@bauges.imag.fr>

Hi,

On Wed, 10 Mar 2010, Matthieu Moy wrote:

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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > Git Release Notes (Git-1.7.0.2-preview20100309)
> > Last update: 9 March 2010
> 
> I'm adding my thanks to the others already given here. I'm not a windows 
> user, so not using it myself, but it's great to know that Git can run 
> properly on Windows! Keep the great work!

Thanks for those kind words!

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> Can you give an update on how much recomandable msysgit is? I mean, at 
> some point in time, users seemed to be happy, but I remember you 
> discouraging people from using it in production because of remaining 
> serious bugs. Do you think it is now stable enough to be recommanded? 
> More reliable than the cygwin version?

I cannot say anything about the Cygwin version, as I haven't used it in ages.

As for Git for Windows: I still think that it would be dangerous to let users download and use Git for Windows without warning them that they did not obtain commercial support, so it is their responsibility to take care of any issues they encounter.

While there are quite a number of nice people who are more than willing to help (and don't start to count me amongst them :-), nobody should think that it is okay to complain when something does not work as expected: they should have expected that.

Having said that, I have a number of (almost) happy customers of the thing in my day-job project, and that's the only reason why I can get away with working a bit on msysGit during work hours.

Ciao, Dscho