Bob Silverberg just posted a nice guide to Setting up a Mac to Work with Git and GitHub. Thanks Bob!
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Setting up a Mac to Work with Git and GitHub
26 Oct 2009
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26 Oct 2009
Bob Silverberg just posted a nice guide to Setting up a Mac to Work with Git and GitHub. Thanks Bob!
How about a similar guide for windows? I just finished teaching a class where about 30% of the students were on windows. The default git experience is horrible - the git shell randomly hangs and you can't cut and paste. It makes it hard to sell people on the benefits of git.
Git on windows is painful because cmd is painful. I've not tried Powershell, but using Console2 instead of cmd helps a bit. Personally I never ran into any hangs though.
At my previous employer, I was able to use msysgit with little problem:
http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/
Git isn't painful on windows. Here is a list of GUI http://bit.ly/2vNrlz
Here one for windows - http://bit.ly/2A3Wh
Here a tutorial for windows I meant with the last link :-)
msysgit has awesome console with lots of usual tools - like ls, cat, less and even VIM!
It was a pleasure for me to find all these tools on windows, when I helped my colleague with git on his win-pc.
GitExtensions is hosted right here on Github. It has a nice plugin for Visual Studio and a pretty good looking GUI for the Windows users out there.