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Re: GitForWindows vs. Cygwin
- From: Dan Kegel <dank at kegel dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 15:09:38 -0700
- Subject: Re: GitForWindows vs. Cygwin
- References: <587wcTwzy5968Set.1521586344@web02.cms.usa.net> <87fu4tff1m.fsf@Rainer.invalid>
On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 11:40 AM, Achim Gratz <Stromeko@nexgo.de> wrote:
> KARL BOTTS writes:
>> I have no intention to use GFW myself: I use Cygwin git. But now other people
>> around here are discovering GitHub, MSysGit and or GitForWindows. Pretty
>> soon, we are going to wind up with multiple git flavors installed on the same
>> host, which worries me.
>
> As long as you keep the program versions reasonably up-to-date
> w.r.t. each other and have a strict policy about CRLF handling in place
> things should work OK. You also need to worry more about having
> sensible ACL on the repositories and keeping them sane.
I may be exploring that in the near future; one of the things I
need to build is electron, and it needs git for windows installed.
- Dan
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