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thomas:
--- Quote from: Biplab on April 12, 2011, 02:13:04 pm ---You can use TortoiseGIT+msys-git combination. They are as good as TortoiseSVN.
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That, Sir, is the biggest lie of the century. Nice try, though :) (I can't believe I only saw that one today, hehehe.)
TortoiseSVN installs in around 10 seconds and works perfectly well even if you don't know a single thing about version control. If you can read English, and know how to hold a mouse, you're good to go.
With TortoiseGit, I run into annoyances and problems doing trivial things like committing or reverting almost every single time.
Furthermore, msys-git takes almost an hour to install and requires a truly ridiculous amount of harddisk space. Someone who distributes a "little commandline tool" that weights on the order of hundreds of megabytes got something seriously wrong.
zabzonk:
@thomas I agree about tortoise-git - not a patch on TortoiseSVN, and rather buggy. However:
> Furthermore, msys-git takes almost an hour to install
Say what? I've installed it a couple of times, and I'd say 10 minutes at the very, very outside. However, the bash shell that comes with it is extremely slow unless you run it as administrator. But I've found its more or less impossible to do development work on Win7 unless you run as admin, so its not a big deal for me.
daniloz:
@thomas Also agree that tortoiseGit + msysGit is quite buggy and not really ready for show time. I think that the whole git thing was developed for command line and it's rather difficult to put it in a GUI. I still think that using git gui & gitk in addition to command line git is way better than tortoiseGit, IMHO.
Even though I'm using git for not less than a week now, I'm already in love with its capabilities, mainly cheap local branching and local/distributed repositories.
Just my 2 cents... ;-)
MortenMacFly:
--- Quote from: thomas on November 04, 2011, 06:12:47 pm ---Furthermore, msys-git takes almost an hour to install and requires a truly ridiculous amount of harddisk space. Someone who distributes a "little commandline tool" that weights on the order of hundreds of megabytes got something seriously wrong.
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I am using portable GIT (http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/downloads/detail?name=PortableGit-1.7.7.1-preview20111027.7z&can=2&q=) which you only need to decompress and then it works. In combination with SmartGIT (you guys know meanwhile I love their tools ;-)) it's quite powerful, even the SVN/GIT integration. It offers a very easy way to get a GIT repo out of a SVN repo.
But I have to agree with Thomas: I was really surprised how big GIT is - I was hoping to find at least a UI tool like the one shipping with Mercurial, but no luck. :)
zabzonk:
> I was hoping to find at least a UI tool like the one shipping with Mercurial,
Mercurial does not ship with a GUI - TortoiseHg is a separate project. And in fact msys-git does ship with a (not very good) GUI try:
--- Code: ---git help gui
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