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

[Mike N.]

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

   My last evaluation of tools was 6 months ago, so it's dated.   If I take 
the time to learn a tool, it should also have decent integration into daily 
environments: Eclipse, Visual Studio, etc.    Of course those integrations 
exist, with varying quality levels.  There were some total non-working 
issues under Windows x64 when I looked then, but they may be fixed by now. 
I ended up with Mercurial which has high quality Windows integration.   I 
haven't had to fight the tool reliability issues at all.

   Cygwin - that's OK in a pinch, but the environment is very unforgiving 
and will happily and silently mangle the Windows host file ACLs if you do 
the wrong thing such as forgetting which host you're on and using chmod or 
chown.