[josm-dev] Open offer to convert JOSM to Git

[Richard Welty]

On 4/30/10 7:40 AM, Mike N. wrote:
> Re: Git -my personal bias is to retain SVN because Git is not yet
> Windows-friendly, although there is at least one implementation that works
> somewhat on Windows.
>
>    
by way of context, i'm not a josm developer, but i have about 10 years 
of java experience,
and used git for version control in a consulting stint at Bank of 
America, which entailed
developing on Windows XP while delivering to Solaris.

what exactly is does "not yet Windows-friendly" mean exactly? the 
following is from
my direct experience at the bank:

1) the git command line interface worked perfectly from cygwin.

2) secure access to our solaris git server worked perfectly over ssh

3) the gui tool gitk (built out on gtk, i believe) worked extremely well 
for viewing git
development trees and commits, i used it quite heavily.

4) the "git-gui" tool (another gtk based app) seemed to work well for 
bread-and-butter
git operations, although i generally just used the command line for the 
most part.

so there are gui tools, is it that they're not native, and if so why 
does that disqualify
them from being "Windows-friendly"?

richard