[colomon]

Sure, and I'm one of them. It's not exactly startling news in 2012 that a lot of people prefer the git/hg model. Hell, I prefer it myself! But I've got a complete svn ecosystem set up here, with 44 projects in a single svn repository, automatic offsite backups, and hundreds of checked-out directories spread across five (or more?) computers with five distinct operating systems. As far as I can see, the one-time costs of moving over completely dwarf the relatively small benefits I would gain from using a better branching model.

[crosvenir]

I'm one of them as well. I'd also love to use git. The issue I have we it is that I feel like the "port" to Windows was more of a crowbar sort of operation rather than a well thought out plan to make a program cross-platform compatible.

Install TortoiseSVN. Done.

Install TortoiseHg. Oh it needs something else. What's it called? Ok. I need msysGit. I'll get that. Ok, they're all in beta? Whatever I'll just get one. What? It runs on top of Cywin? And on, and on...

Am I missing something here or is it really that convoluted? I work with non-programmers (engineering types) who program and I need it to be easy for them. Any recommendations?

[jurre]

The guide at github[0] is pretty easy to follow. I've done it on some of my fellow students' pc's a couple of times during a project, but most of them switched to Ubuntu after a couple of weeks.

[0]http://help.github.com/win-set-up-git/

[crosvenir]

This is a really great setup tutorial that I haven't seen before. Thanks!

[RobAtticus]

I assume you meant TortoiseGit? Otherwise, I think I spot the problem.

(Just pointing out because TortoiseHg actually is fairly painless to install if you want to use Mercurial on Windows, and the typo might confuse some)

[crosvenir]

Wow. Yeah. TortoiseGit. Wherever my brain is I hope it's happy and it writes soon. Thanks!