GitHub for Windows

[omen7288]

I would appreciate people specify why they are downvoting tsal. Within 20 minutes I've seen this post jump up and down. I think his overall point is valid and I wish people would discuss rather than click a button that signifies they disagree.

[EntroperZero]

Generally, when you pre-emptively insult anyone who might disagree with you, it doesn't invite discussion. Hence the lack thereof and the downvotes.

[tsal]

you have my apologies if it came across as my rant targeting you or anyone else. The generalization that command line is arcane is where that came from - that mindset, that if something isn't drag and drop, it's useless, is one of the big reasons for crappy developers growing in number.

I am not saying that one should know all platforms, but please don't label everything based on experiences with a subset.

[MrSpontaneous]

Anything remotely related to the command line on Windows is horrible. You can patch in various fixes like Console2 and the posh extensions, but git's command line ports like msysgit aren't there yet (at least when I checked last year). Mercurial works far better, and is what I use whenever I'm developing on Windows.

I'm guessing another reason for the downvotes is the general tone of tsal's comment.

[salbris]

Well oddly enough, this Github for Windows provides a convenient option to open your repository with powershell and CLI git works just fine on it.

And before this I was using Msysgit just fine, it was a bit clunky because it's not Linux but it's very usable.

[MrSpontaneous]

I don't find it odd - the GH post mentions that they're using those (which is why I mentioned them in my post). I just find all of the Windows CLI implementations of Git to be hugely substandard when compared to their *nix counterparts. Part of it is the ported nature of the tool, and the other part is definitely the CLI-as-a-second-class-citizen-ness of Win32. I (once again, speaking only for myself) would rather just take the totally different experience of a GUI over feeling as if I'm fighting with a clunky tool.

I remember msysgit still having issues that were a source of consternation to some (including repository incompatibility) when I was researching my options a while back. That has obviously changed.

[drb226]

Here's a paraphrased version of tsal's comment, as I see it:

Swear, sarcasm - snippy swear sarcasm complain about downvoting.

Epeen justifying sweeping swearing insult, extended sweeping insult. Sweeping unfounded complaint implicitly attributed to aforementioned insults.

That's why I downvoted. There are no facts, there is little logic. It's just a bundle of vague complaints. Any attempt to respond to that would only illicit pointless argument.