From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14743 invoked by alias); 21 Mar 2018 22:09:42 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 14734 invoked by uid 89); 21 Mar 2018 22:09:42 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy= X-HELO: mail-pf0-f172.google.com Received: from mail-pf0-f172.google.com (HELO mail-pf0-f172.google.com) (209.85.192.172) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 22:09:41 +0000 Received: by mail-pf0-f172.google.com with SMTP id h11so2543260pfn.4 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 15:09:41 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:message-id:subject:to; bh=pRG4yxzO+QgQdcaKkBaPUO5RRpTVql1YdetP6POZeIA=; b=mSzaXqxlLi+XVLYMS1QvdGGjh3CWztob44XvjDgNLlWXEgC6FwxSUfmOwYVoEVuiZ2 SWb6BElwkiygFUpa9dkb0OiqLfw6LaJP3IKTXO6mznhUctndO/khqvKQrejSnSCabel+ myzOow69PYq/i2pZO18/y2OUZTHMA+Uol5cLkFsJTbJmlFl7sYvjPMJLwYo60jfyM9IF RnrpIg1yJbbTIdVNUgN3GApE93v0cjnQM3MgXiOufdx3n+jXVAZWPRix7oZJecLrTd5F aO5GwM0PoCpG6z1mBli8Q1phNITFujG5WaTpTVILXKQC1iBEyhPURr1WokYWxh48U4vK FTSg== X-Gm-Message-State: AElRT7FB+QuKXEh/2WXdedQe5wfQSd5OHflsZC2CeyGpTDtyRjbZ0JHr ZTPi0parr5m3gaYGwz2N4gvR3XkqfbEHoSw9cII= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AG47ELsggSH99rKK+Qvv52mUn7Ar91Axs2nqU+h85oC8t3xNVjhp3Sz9u0hF0RspeHmtfDBRQjt4nrRmkg2FTRm/7K0= X-Received: by 10.101.90.140 with SMTP id c12mr10452420pgt.191.1521670179365; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 15:09:39 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.100.154.86 with HTTP; Wed, 21 Mar 2018 15:09:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87fu4tff1m.fsf@Rainer.invalid> References: <587wcTwzy5968Set.1521586344@web02.cms.usa.net> <87fu4tff1m.fsf@Rainer.invalid> From: Dan Kegel Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2018 23:20:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: GitForWindows vs. Cygwin To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-03/txt/msg00340.txt.bz2 On Wed, Mar 21, 2018 at 11:40 AM, Achim Gratz wrote: > KARL BOTTS writes: >> I have no intention to use GFW myself: I use Cygwin git. But now other people >> around here are discovering GitHub, MSysGit and or GitForWindows. Pretty >> soon, we are going to wind up with multiple git flavors installed on the same >> host, which worries me. > > As long as you keep the program versions reasonably up-to-date > w.r.t. each other and have a strict policy about CRLF handling in place > things should work OK. You also need to worry more about having > sensible ACL on the repositories and keeping them sane. I may be exploring that in the near future; one of the things I need to build is electron, and it needs git for windows installed. - Dan -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple