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I've suggested people use it for their office documents.

Although I like the CLI interface to some of these tools, I think to get people using them you need nice GUI tools and sadly these are lacking - or rather they were when I last looked.

For git, perhaps, but subversion has Tortoise SVN which integrates nicely with windows explorer.

And I just googled before posting, but it looks like it's been ported to git: http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit

I was trying to turn on some applers to the joy of svn, and the tools at the time were immature, though that was two years back. Tortoise was great on windows though. I thought GIT didn't play well with windows - so a git-tortoise would be welcome.

The article at least implies that you'd be better off on the command line and it's not that bad. But my experience is that to others it can be a turn off.

TortoiseGit is pretty usable on windows. You should try it.

http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/

My only gripe are the icon overlays. I still get randomly missing overlays.

Git used to play badly with Windows. It does fine now.

If you're on OS X, bortherbard's fork of gitx might work if you're looking for a graphical option:

http://github.com/brotherbard/gitx/downloads

I don't actually use it to commit because I have a screwy commit flow, but I'd expect it to work for a basic commit cycle.

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