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Monday, September 5, 2011

SmartGit - Finally a Window git client that doesn't suck | Adam Kennedy at blogs.perl.org

Adam Kennedy at blogs.perl.org: SmartGit - Finally a Window git client that doesn't suck
For years I've struggled with the git'erati and their zealotous ways.
First it was "It's awesome, just use Linux".
Then it was "It's fine, just use cygwin" ignoring the fact it clashes with Strawberry.
Later, this because "It's fine, just use msysgit" when most people on Windows don't like command lines and don't want to use them.
Finally, it's been "Stop trying to think about git like svn, it is a special flower!"
It's always felt like the same wrong argument. That git was so fast and magical and OMG that it didn't matter that it didn't work like people on 80-90% of the world's computers would expect it to, or that it used a whole parallel set of terms, or that it had guis that were both ugly and utterly unusable unless you already knew the command line versions.
No, clearly it was our (my) fault for just not being awesome enough for git.
So it is with great joy that I can report, as the unofficial poster boy of Perl's Windows Git Curmudgeons, that there finally exists a Windows git client that works normally.
http://www.syntevo.com/smartgit/index.html

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