[gst-devel] GStreamer switching to git

[Forest]

Ole Andr? Vadla Ravn?s wrote:
> I strongly object to this decision, and for one specific technical
> reason. git does not work acceptably on Windows, and this is caused by
> the basic design of its UI. It's a collection of shell-scripts, and
> thus it relies on MSYS or cygwin. Yes, it "works", but this is like
> telling people that MS Office supports Linux because you can run it
> through WINE.

I'm merely a lurker on this list, but for the record, Mercurial (hg) works
very well on both unix and windows.  It also has a reputation for being
more intuitive to use than git, and at least as fast, with a similarly
strong underlying design.