Re: Errors GITtifying GCC and Binutils

Shawn Pearce [off-list ref] writes:

I'm not trying to bash Windows users.  I'm just saying that there's
definately a large user base for SCMs such as CVS who just want
to check in the latest version of a file they have to maintain.
Many of these people are afraid of a command prompt.  Asking them
to install Cygwin just to check in a file is a difficult challenge.

Export your git repository via git-cvsserver and have them use
TortoiseCVS.  Such "maintain the tip and that is the only thing
what interest me" people do not even need to know the backend is
git.

Hi,

On Thu, 23 Mar 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Shawn Pearce [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

I'm not trying to bash Windows users.  I'm just saying that there's
definately a large user base for SCMs such as CVS who just want
to check in the latest version of a file they have to maintain.
Many of these people are afraid of a command prompt.  Asking them
to install Cygwin just to check in a file is a difficult challenge.

Export your git repository via git-cvsserver and have them use
TortoiseCVS.  Such "maintain the tip and that is the only thing
what interest me" people do not even need to know the backend is
git.

Now if I could only find a way to tell TortoiseCVS which CVS_SERVER to 
use...

Ciao,
Dscho