[OpenAFS-win32-devel] AFS + git + Windows

[Jeffrey Altman]

The dependency on cygwin has nothing to do with Git.  The cygwin
dependency is due to docbook which is used to format all of the OpenAFS
documentation as HTML, HTMLHelp, and PDF.  There is no requirement that
you use the cygwin environment.  The requirement is that you have it
installed so that the docbook tools are accessible.  If you are not
building installers or do not care about building the documentation then
you can ignore cygwin entirely.

There is no Tortoise interface for Git.  That is one of the things that
I would love to see and which would require the libgit2 implementation.

Jeffrey Altman


Dyer, Rodney wrote:
> Just as an opinion, I absolutely hate doing anything with cygwin.  The cygwin environment is ugly, and for unix people who have absolutely no concept of working on other operating systems, so they ended up "porting" their environment to Windows so they would have something familiar.  When I work in Solaris/Linux, I don't scream and whine about not having the Windows command prompt, and BATCH available with the slashes and different CRLF formats.  I work in 'nix the way you are supposed to work in 'nix.  That's how you learn.  That's how you get wise on other technologies.
> 
> I would absolutely love to have a Windows GUI GIT client something like WinCVS.
> 
> As it is, I guess I won't be working with the "code" any longer without getting it from the OpenAFS.org site.
> 
> Rodney
> 
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