Critical security updates for Git, Subversion and Mercurial

Re:Critical security updates for Git, Subversion and Mercurial by skrebbel on Friday August 11, 2017 @09:10AM (#14989257)

Getting off topic fast, but I always found Chocolatey to be needlessly complicated and messy.

I was very happy when I found http://scoop.sh. It's simpler and slightly less powerful, and most notably it just runs official installers in the background instead of copying binaries over from the source and packing them up in a special way.

(It's also at the latest got already)

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Re:Critical security updates for Git, Subversion and Mercurial by jpfed on Friday August 11, 2017 @10:55AM (#14990256)

>Getting off topic fast, but I always found Chocolatey to be needlessly complicated and messy.

I haven't released it yet, but Napkin solves this very issue.

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Re:Critical security updates for Git, Subversion and Mercurial by kakarot on Friday August 11, 2017 @03:57PM (#14993552)

Would you mind elaborating?

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Re:Critical security updates for Git, Subversion and Mercurial by 0xffff2 on Friday August 11, 2017 @08:41PM (#14995624)

I really hope it's just a joke about overly opaque project naming, possibly riffing on the need for a napkin after a "Chocolatey" "Scoop" [of ice cream].

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Re:Critical security updates for Git, Subversion and Mercurial by kakarot on Saturday August 12, 2017 @02:34AM (#14996736)

oh damn you're right, I didn't catch the humor. Thanks ~

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Re:Critical security updates for Git, Subversion and Mercurial by ericfrederich on Friday August 11, 2017 @10:00AM (#14989717)

Thanks for getting off-topic. These seem useful... until WSL becomes more mainstream.

Part of my workflow involves using ncat.exe to use git over a socks/ssh proxy. A real pain. I noticed scoop has nc but not ncat.

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Re:Critical security updates for Git, Subversion and Mercurial by skrebbel on Friday August 11, 2017 @10:47AM (#14990152)

I find `bash -c blablabla` works great for invoking the occasional Linux commands without moving to WSL entirely.

(Actually I used to run all devtools, eg git and webpack I etc etc on WSL entirely but it still has too many quirks. Moved back to plain Windows recently and I'm happier)

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Re:Critical security updates for Git, Subversion and Mercurial by pjmlp on Friday August 11, 2017 @02:17PM (#14992714)

Being on MS-DOS since 3.3, and being introduced to UNIX via Xenix, I have found out through the years that the best way is just to use the native CLI of each platform.

For stuff that needs to run everywhere and I don't feel like writing two versions of scripts, I just use Python.

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