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To: Torgil Svensson <torgil.svensson@...>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@...>, Git Mailing List <git@...>
Date: Friday, August 10, 2007 - 3:19 am

On Aug 10, 2007, at 8:07 AM, Torgil Svensson wrote:


I think both. I'm currently conducting a survey what the Windows
users I'm working with are using. Up to now I have no idea what these
tools do. Note, I'm not working on Windows. But I would like to see
git starting the tools that users prefer to use.

Git would just feel more like a useful Windows tool if it interacted
with other useful Windows tools.

Here is what I have on my list (not yet prioritized):

- WinMerge (http://winmerge.org/)

- Visual Comparer (http://www.nikeware.com/vc-features.htm)

- Araxis Merge, http://www.araxis.com/merge/ (expensive!)

- Beyond Compare, http://www.scootersoftware.com/file-comparison.php  
(will support 3-way  with upcoming version 3; reasonable price)

- KDiff3, http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/ (comes with Windows- 
installer from SF)

- ECMerge, http://www.elliecomputing.com/Products/merge_overview.asp  
(OSS developer can get a "Pro" license for free upon request)

A complete list at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_comparison_tools



I don't see your point. The question is if git runs flawlessly
on 64 bit systems, which we use for development. I have no experience
with mingw. Maybe there are some issues with 64 bit Windows, maybe
not. But its a reasonable question?



The official repo would indicate a real commitment to me that
Windows support if officially maintained.

I agree that there may be more tools group around core git. But
core git itself should be the master from the official repo.
This seems to be a reasonable goal to me. At least that is what
we do. The head must compile on all supported platforms
out-of-the-box.



I work for years now on cross platform code. I never needed a whole
environment. I need Qt and the native development environment, like
Visual Studio, gcc, Xcode. I don't need KDE on Windows, I don't need
KDE on Mac. Everything's there already.

	Steffen

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git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Sebastian Schuberth, (Tue Aug 7, 5:02 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Johannes Schindelin, (Tue Aug 7, 7:58 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Sebastian Schuberth, (Tue Aug 7, 8:13 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Sebastian Schuberth, (Tue Aug 7, 9:18 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Mark Levedahl, (Tue Aug 7, 11:29 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Shawn O. Pearce, (Tue Aug 7, 10:36 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Brian Downing, (Tue Aug 7, 10:58 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Tue Aug 7, 1:11 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Mark Levedahl, (Tue Aug 7, 1:42 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Tue Aug 7, 3:41 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Mark Levedahl, (Wed Aug 8, 9:50 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Wed Aug 8, 11:51 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Mark Levedahl, (Wed Aug 8, 12:41 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Johannes Schindelin, (Wed Aug 8, 1:20 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Wed Aug 8, 3:37 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Johannes Schindelin, (Wed Aug 8, 5:30 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Thu Aug 9, 2:20 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Torgil Svensson, (Fri Aug 10, 2:07 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Fri Aug 10, 3:19 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Torgil Svensson, (Fri Aug 10, 6:31 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Fri Aug 10, 8:43 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Torgil Svensson, (Tue Aug 14, 8:04 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Wed Aug 15, 1:22 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, David Kastrup, (Wed Aug 15, 1:30 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Wed Aug 15, 1:43 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, David Kastrup, (Wed Aug 15, 2:59 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Johannes Schindelin, (Mon Aug 13, 6:50 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Johannes Schindelin, (Fri Aug 10, 6:30 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Fri Aug 10, 7:14 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Wed Aug 8, 4:13 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Wed Aug 8, 4:36 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Marius Storm-Olsen, (Thu Aug 9, 2:01 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Johannes Schindelin, (Thu Aug 9, 4:50 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Marius Storm-Olsen, (Thu Aug 9, 5:00 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Thu Aug 9, 6:33 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Thu Aug 9, 2:38 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Marius Storm-Olsen, (Thu Aug 9, 2:47 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Mark Levedahl, (Wed Aug 8, 7:07 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Thu Aug 9, 12:59 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Junio C Hamano, (Tue Aug 7, 6:26 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Sebastian Schuberth, (Wed Aug 8, 3:55 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Aug 7, 5:44 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Tue Aug 7, 6:46 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Brian Downing, (Wed Aug 8, 12:25 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Wed Aug 8, 1:46 am)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Steffen Prohaska, (Tue Aug 7, 7:20 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Junio C Hamano, (Tue Aug 7, 6:28 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Linus Torvalds, (Tue Aug 7, 11:47 pm)
Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD, Sebastian Schuberth, (Tue Aug 7, 11:27 am)
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