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Since you're obviously happy with the setup, I'm curious about what specific setup you used for git in Windows. Last time I tried it, it was (literally) a cluster-fuck which completely set me off git.

Do you just use cygwin'd git wrappers? Do you use any additional tools? Any advice would be appreciated as I'd love to try this service out on its own merits (and not biased by git's lacking merits in a Windows environment).

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One of the things we do to make it easier is our support for basic authentication when pushing. This removes any requirement for getting SSH to work on Windows, which is usually the issue you'll run into.

Thanks for the reply. That sounds great and should definitely address one of my two major problems with git on Windows.

The second one (with \'s vs /'s in paths) can iirc be fixed with some simple bash aliases for the git-console, so it should probably work out.

Looking forward to try the service out :)

A bigger problem is newline handling, which no one can seem to agree on.

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

I second this, you can install straight from an installer and get a Git command line, Git GUI and a plugin for VS. It really is almost a one click process.

I've been using msysgit (http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/) and it works well. I also recently installed Git Extensions (http://code.google.com/p/gitextensions/) to use in Visual Studio. It doesn't work all that well but I haven't had time to play around with it much.

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