What are currently the problems with Git on Windows

Question

I wanted to download msysgit here, and it says this: \"here are not enough contributors to the msysGit project to offer commercial-grade support; if you do not have the means to

Answer 1

Haven't you used TortoiseGit?

https://tortoisegit.org

Answer 2

The quote you mention is referring more to problems that you create. A huge purpose of "commercial-grade support" is to have someone to contact when you can't figure out how to dig yourself out of the hole you dove into. The developers naturally can't and have no desire to fill that role, and that quote is really just them trying to fend off waves of emails from people saying "I ran git clean -xdf and all my files are gone! Help!" An actual bug report would be a very different matter - they want their software to work just as much as you do.

All that said, msysgit is based on the git everyone else uses, which has a pretty extensive test suite. I think you can count on it for stability as much as you can any VCS at this point.

Answer 3

I'm using git on Win7 with no obvious problems. Don't let the language scare you. Get it, try it. I don't think you'll be sorry.

Edit: Download it from http://git-scm.com

Answer 4

msysgit has been really stable for us. However the team working on it does seem to be very small (and we're very grateful to them). If they were to move off the project, who knows what would happen. So far so good though.

We have hit a bug in gitk where our repo has so many changes that gitk on Windows won't show them all, whereas on a Mac it will. Something to do with the command line length limit on Windows. We'll see whether it gets fixed or not. Still, there's TortoiseGit which works and offers an alternate UI.

I would recommend it, with the caveat that you also look into Mercurial, which is perhaps better supported on Windows.