Ask HN: How is Git on Windows today?

Re:Ask HN: How is Git on Windows today? by dmethvin on Thursday October 28, 2010 @10:36PM (#1845832)

Do the devs already know git, or will it be a new experience for them? No matter what tool(s) you use, learning to use git effectively will be the hardest part.

I use TortoiseGit integrated into Windows Explorer for most stuff, and drop down to the command line in the odd situation where it's needed. I can't give much feedback about the server side, I'm using GitHub.

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Re:Ask HN: How is Git on Windows today? by johnsto19 on Thursday October 28, 2010 @10:40PM (#1845840)

I am pleased to see TortoiseGit, does it have any big issues? I remember hearing about it a while ago being very "beta" software.

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Re:Ask HN: How is Git on Windows today? by dmethvin on Friday October 29, 2010 @09:35AM (#1847241)

TortoiseGit has been working fine for me, no crashes or problems. They've done a pretty good job of taking the most common scenarios and making them easy to do, even for a Windows user. (And I say that as a Windows user:)

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Re:Ask HN: How is Git on Windows today? by mullr on Thursday October 28, 2010 @11:23PM (#1845977)

I used it about 6 months ago but ended up uninstalling it; it had a nasty habit of locking my git repo when I needed it and then crashing. Haven't used it since.

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Re:Ask HN: How is Git on Windows today? by aidenn0 on Thursday October 28, 2010 @10:57PM (#1845893)

Let me know how that is. I know someone who tried it about a year ago, and it caused explorer to crash regularly.

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Re:Ask HN: How is Git on Windows today? by barrydahlberg on Thursday October 28, 2010 @11:08PM (#1845930)

Moving from SVN to a simple pull, modify, push model is pretty straight forward. Learning git properly is tricky.

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