Does Git work in Windows?

Question

I work on Linux all the time and I'm clueless about Windows, not even having a Windows box. Is Git nowadays working on Windows? Or am I making problems for my Windows pals by using it?

Answer 1

As far as I can tell msysgit works perfectly well under Windows Vista.

This after a whole 2-month experience checking out plugins and applications for Ruby on Rails :-)

Anyway, it was a breeze to install, no problem.

Answer 2

I have had no problems, even with the gui tools (gitk and git gui), using git from Cygwin. The Cygwin people are very conscientious and have a large community to boot.

Answer 3

Yes it does. Check out this screencast at GitCasts.

Answer 4

You should also checkout Git-Extensions which adds git commands as shell extensions - works great with msysgit.

Answer 5

There's a port of Tortoise for GIT, in version 0.4 so far:

• Tortoise GIT

Answer 6

I've heard good things about it, but a sticking point for me (and the Japanese company I work for) is lack of cross-platform Unicode filename support. It depends if that particular feature is important to you.

See Issue 80 in the msysgit bug tracker.

See the What DVCS support Unicode filenames? question I asked about this.

Answer 7

It works, but not well. If you Google around a bit, you'll find the port which uses MinGW. The main problems are instability and some very Linux-like tools (gittk). If you really need it though, you should be able to get by.

Answer 8

In the case you are primary using Eclipse as your IDE, there's a fine team provider called EGit, which is pretty easy to install. Check this: http://www.eclipse.org/egit/