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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?

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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.

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    I've been using msysgit on Win XP SP 2 for a while now - and had no problems with it. – Peter Boughton Sep 23 '08 at 22:33
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    We've got it running on Win XP SP3 and Win XP SP2. No issues - AND the msysgit team keeps pretty up-to-date. Was even able to get it working with Pageant to push/pull to a SSH-accessed git repo. – Michael Johnson Sep 24 '08 at 05:52
  • me too - the msysgit version has been running fine for me on Windows XP SP2. Used locally and also with remote repositories on github and heroku. – tardate Sep 24 '08 at 09:20
  • I set up a PM with msysgit and git-gui last week - no problems so far! – Ben Scofield Oct 02 '08 at 12:09
  • Note for contemporary readers: this question was asked in 2008. msysgit has been working fine for me in Windows 7 for over a year. Even gitk works. – Dan Dascalescu Jan 07 '13 at 05:31
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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.

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Yes it does. Check out this screencast at GitCasts.

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

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

Chris S
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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.

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Craig McQueen
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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.

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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/

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