Re: git not fetching from origin...

[Johannes Schindelin]

Hi,

On Sun, 24 May 2009, Patrick McCarty wrote:

> On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:33:51PM -0600, Carl D. Sorensen wrote:
> > 
> > On 5/24/09 8:40 PM, "Mark Polesky" <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > I think the instructions in the CG just aren't clear enough. Is
> > > anyone out there happily making git patches on Windows? Let me
> > > know!
> > 
> > I believe that Patrick McCarty is happily making git patches on
> > Windows, and perhaps Andrew Hawryluk, as well.
> 
> I don't want to give the impression that I'm making git patches on
> Windows, because I'm not.  If I was, my explanations might be a little
> more informed, because there might be some peculiarities with using
> Git on Windows.  I'm just hoping that the general Git commands work
> the same on Windows as they do on GNU/Linux.

Modulo the path issues (think drive letters and backslashes) and the 
inability of some Windows editors to handle LF-only line endings 
correctly, Git on Windows should behave exactly as Git on Linux.  At least 
we try very hard to make it so.

The only difference is speed, but that is due to Windows and cannot be 
helped.  Git on Windows still kicks subversion's rear end in term of 
speed.

Ciao,
Dscho