Despite having circumvented the problems caused by the new Windows Vista UAC – as described in an older blog entry of mine and found all around the internet, git sometimes still has problems. At work, my team collaborates with SVN and commits to our company svn server. I am using git as an SVN client, [...]
There’s an update for the problem described here. As already suspected, Windows Vista applies some heuristics to mark files, so users need to elevate to administrator to be able to execute those programs. However, the “heuristics” that are applied seem to be rather simple:
On my Gentoo Linux at work, I’ve trying out git in the subversion locally, while committing to an SVN server. I did have issues getting the inital clone done; the repository is around 1 GB svn checkout size and contains ~89’000 revisions.
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I currently try out git because of its ability to do full version control without access to the server (like when in traveller mode). While on Gentoo Linux it’s quite easy to get it working, on my laptop’s Windows Vista installation with cygwin, I’ve encountered problems that could yet only be worked around in a [...]