Bill Baxter wrote:
Looking now, I see git is available precompiled from Cygwin at last, but I still get an uneasy feeling about relying on a tool that is so unapologetically Linux-centric as the backbone for a cross-platform app like Inkscape. Platform-specific issues like line-end translation do exist, and I would be surprised if Git devs proved to be very receptive about dealing with such issues since they can't even be bothered to make link for a Mac or Windows client on their web Page.
I spent some time in #git a few weeks back talking about win32 support with the devs. I must say they were nothing but helpful. At that time there wasn't a fully polished win32 git client, but they helped me work through compiling a native git with mingw. I'm sure they would have also helped me work through installing git with cygwin, but I only spent a few days there. We also discussed git on win32 on this mailing list at about the same time (you could check the archives to catch up on all the details). My experience with win32 and the git community runs contrary to your supposition. No there isn't a finly polished git client for us to use today, but this is nothing but a manpower problem.
Aaron Spike