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MSysGit Stability

Subject: MSysGit Stability

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7 messages between Jul 15, 2008 and Jul 16, 2008.

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Joe Fiorini· Jul 15, 2008, 21:58 UTC · lore

Hey all,

I'm going to be working with a small dev shop in the near future and we would like to use Git for our project. Two of us are on Macs, but the other is on Windows. I know the options are MSysGit or Git through cygwin. I'm curious which is better to use and if MSysGit is even stable yet. Does anyone have experience running Git on Windows? Any experiences you can share? Is MSysGit ready yet or should we wait?

Thanks all! Joe

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Vincent Kergonna· Jul 16, 2008, 05:22 UTC · re: Joe Fiorini · lore

Re: MSysGit Stability

On Jul 15, 2008, at 23:58 , Joe Fiorini wrote:

> Hey all,

Hi,

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> I'm going to be working with a small dev shop in the near future and
> we would like to use Git for our project.  Two of us are on Macs, but
> the other is on Windows.  I know the options are MSysGit or Git
> through cygwin.  I'm curious which is better to use and if MSysGit is
> even stable yet.  Does anyone have experience running Git on Windows?
> Any experiences you can share?  Is MSysGit ready yet or should we
> wait?

We are using MSysGit at work. We've had no problem with it so far (using it for about four months). I think you can safely use MSysGit on Windows. Since it comes with a dedicated installer It is easier to install/upgrade than the cygwin version.

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> Thanks all!
> Joe
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	Vincent

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Peter Krefting· Jul 16, 2008, 08:30 UTC · re: Joe Fiorini · lore

Re: MSysGit Stability

Joe Fiorini:

> I'm curious which is better to use and if MSysGit is even stable yet.
> Does anyone have experience running Git on Windows? Any experiences
> you can share? Is MSysGit ready yet or should we wait?

I have been using MSysGit actively for several projects since late last year. The first time was a bit rough, but with the latest few version, the MSysGit version has really matured, and I am happy to recommend it anyone who wants to try out Git.

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Dmitry Potapov· Jul 16, 2008, 10:42 UTC · re: Joe Fiorini · lore

Re: MSysGit Stability

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 05:58:43PM -0400, Joe Fiorini wrote:

> I'm curious which is better to use and if MSysGit is
> even stable yet.  Does anyone have experience running Git on Windows?

Personally, I don't use it because I rarely use Windows, but I know people who do since the beginning of this year, and in general they are happy with it. It works faster than Cygwin version due to some Git specific optimization put into mingw compatibility layer. So, the only complain I heard so far is from people who got Cygwin on their computer, and they don't like that MSysGit installs MSys, which means another set of POSIX utilities such as bash but different version (usually more old) and having a different HOME directory.

Dmitry

Peter Harris· Jul 16, 2008, 12:33 UTC · re: Joe Fiorini · lore

Re: MSysGit Stability

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Joe Fiorini wrote:

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>   Does anyone have experience running Git on Windows?

I use msysgit regularly. The core git is quite stable, although occasionally peripherals have a bit of trouble. For example, git-svn was broken recently.

Overall, I would recommend msysgit for anyone stuck on Windows.

Peter Harris

Johannes Schindelin· Jul 16, 2008, 12:58 UTC · re: Peter Harris · lore

Re: MSysGit Stability

Hi,

On Wed, 16 Jul 2008, Peter Harris wrote:

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> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 5:58 PM, Joe Fiorini wrote:
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> >   Does anyone have experience running Git on Windows?
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> I use msysgit regularly. The core git is quite stable, although
> occasionally peripherals have a bit of trouble. For example, git-svn
> was broken recently.

Note that git-svn will be removed in the next alpha release of msysGit, due to lack of people interested in fixing the thing. No, complaining and asking others to do all the work does not account for "interest".

Ciao, Dscho

Pascal Obry· Jul 16, 2008, 14:59 UTC · re: Joe Fiorini · lore

Re: MSysGit Stability

Joe,

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> I'm going to be working with a small dev shop in the near future and
> we would like to use Git for our project.  Two of us are on Macs, but
> the other is on Windows.  I know the options are MSysGit or Git
> through cygwin.  I'm curious which is better to use and if MSysGit is
> even stable yet.  Does anyone have experience running Git on Windows?

Yes, all the time on some quite large projects and since a year now. No problem, quite stable. I'm using Git on Cygwin that I build myself almost every day. I'm also working with git-svn as many projects I'm working on are based on Subversion. At least Git Cygwin is a perfect solution on Windows.

> Any experiences you can share?  Is MSysGit ready yet or should we
> wait?

I have never used MSysGit, so I won't comment.

Pascal.

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