Re: GIT vs Other: Need argument

(I am not trying to make flame-war, so I restrict to 

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He he, I even downloaded minGW version, just to find that git-pull is 
bash script...

So what? Do you think a Python program is a native Windows application?

Who cares... Mercurial binary build distributes hg as .exe (made by
py2exe or some other converter). The net point is that when I type 'hg'
in windows console, I get running mercurial. When I type 'git-pull' I
get error.

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That's double edged sword. The more useful shell scripts, the more 
unportable tool.

Wrong.

Wrong, wrong, wrong. Shell runs on more machines than Python, for example. 
And if you do not use things like bash arrays, scripts are _perfectly_ 
portable.

Hmm. At the moment I am using more or less frequently: Debian Linux,
Tru64 Unix, OpenVMS, Windows XP. Python works well on all of those.
Shell scripts work on the first one and partially on the second one.

(yesss, I tried using Cygwin, this is NOT the way to go)