From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:13:14 GMT Subject: Re: Windows support Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On 7/25/07, Dmitry Kakurin wrote: > How serious are you guys about Windows support? > I'm talking fully-functional port, not Cygwin. > I did a lot of searching for a new SCM to switch to (from Perforce). > And Git is my #1 choice. I love it's internals design and it's > expressive power. I've also tested git-p4 and it has worked like a > charm with my depot (with few tweaks that I may contribute later). > But I do all my work on Windows so I need Git-For-Windows-Done-Right :-). > The current mingw port is not there yet. What features is mingw port missing? > Transition to the new SCM must happen now, so basically I have 2 choices: > 1. Survive for a few months with the current CygWin port of Git > knowing that Windows support is coming FYI, I'm working on getting rid of msys requirement from mingw port. I can't tell you how long it would take though. Could be one month or two. -- Duy