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by crosvenir 5170 days ago
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?

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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/

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

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