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Re:Designers, how do we get you guys to contribute to open s... by josegonzalez on Sunday February 27, 2011 @12:43PM (#2268323)
You're quite wrong.

GitX is available at https://github.com/brotherbard/gitx/downloads (Get the experimental branch)

Git Tower is available at http://www.git-tower.com/

Textmate has a GIT Bundle at https://github.com/jcf/git-tmbundle (It's quite good, but maybe not for designers).

And Giggle (http://live.gnome.org/giggle).

Windows is the only OS lacking a good client, but I use GitX for Mac every day, as do the less technical "devs" at our Startup.

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Re:Designers, how do we get you guys to contribute to open s... by phillco on Sunday February 27, 2011 @02:49PM (#2268726)
> Windows is the only OS lacking a good client

Git Extensions (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gitextensions/) is actually really, really, good. The UI is well-designed and fast. Wish more people knew about it.

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Re:Designers, how do we get you guys to contribute to open s... by pnathan on Sunday February 27, 2011 @01:28PM (#2268442)
Yes, I just picked up git for Windows, and it is atrociously unusable. Brutally atrocious. It's not like Windows is a popular operating system - git shouldn't support it as a first-class citizen. ;)
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Re:Designers, how do we get you guys to contribute to open s... by eps on Sunday February 27, 2011 @05:53PM (#2269240)
Care to elaborate?

I've been using the whatever default Windows port that is linked from Git's download page for several months bow and there is nothing atrocious about it. It works well and it does differ much from the Linux version. (edit) The command line version that is.

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Re:Designers, how do we get you guys to contribute to open s... by pnathan on Sunday February 27, 2011 @11:49PM (#2270080)
The GUI is atrocious. I use the GUI for branch visualization, and, well, I had expected something far better.

I use TortoiseHG and I expected parity.

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Re:Designers, how do we get you guys to contribute to open s... by oemera on Monday February 28, 2011 @04:27AM (#2270698)
Git was developed for improving Linux Kernel development. You see why they don't care about Windows, right?
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Re:Designers, how do we get you guys to contribute to open s... by xiongchiamiov on Sunday February 27, 2011 @08:47PM (#2269680)
Most people seem to say that it works just fine. In my limited experience, it was just like git on Linux.

Given that git was created for hosting the Linux kernel, it should be obvious why it's not a first-class citizen.

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Re:Designers, how do we get you guys to contribute to open s... by notJim on Sunday February 27, 2011 @10:24PM (#2269908)
git gui works wells for me on Windows with msysgit. It's ugly, and there are a good number of small issues, but it definitely provides a reasonable user experience.

And of course, the command line option through msysgit is great.

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Re:Designers, how do we get you guys to contribute to open s... by archivator on Sunday February 27, 2011 @01:47PM (#2268498)
Hmm, there does seem to be a tortoisegit project at http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/ ..
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