One of our hardware engineers uses Windows, and has been checking in schematics and other documents into a git repo. He's tried switching to Linux, but there are tools that only work on Windows.<p>I was pretty stunned to see just how Mac centric all attempts at making git usable was these days. I use linux full time and just hadn't been paying attention.<p>Thankfully github had this git for windows tool! Well, and then we had to install a newer version of the .NET runtime so he could update to an even newer vesion of the .NET runtime just to he could learn a UI that was pretty foreign from the git tool that I was used to.<p>I'm pretty amazed that we never found a build of git that just <i>worked</i> on powershell or cmd.exe. I've been teaching him with the "gitshell" that github has, but all the bashisms, the weird prompts..<p>Browsers have made cross platform tooling a ghetto. I'm not sure whether this is good or bad, but it was certainly a recent relevation for me.
The one thing I don't like about GitHub for Windows (and GitHub in general) is its lack of a graphical view of your branches. I've found that a DAG view is indispensible for understanding the mechanics of branching and merging, and even now that I'm using the command line much more than I used to, I still find I make extensive use of it.<p>I sometimes wonder if not displaying a DAG view is an attempt to make Git seem more accessible to Subversion and TFS users, who are only used to a linear concept of source history. (Microsoft's Git client in Visual Studio 2013 is another one that does the same thing.) The problem is that it's misleading, because it shows changesets as being related to each other when in actual fact they aren't.
Looks great! Though I don't have high expectations for any desktop Github client to support the hundreds of features and workflows of Git, I mainly use it as a souped-up `git status`.<p>I would prefer Github to bend a little more money and effort toward mobile. The Github Android app is half-finished and doesn't have the one basic feature that everyone wants from it - notifications.<p>It would also be nice for the mobile version of the Github site to have basic feature parity with the desktop version. And it would be nice for Gist to have a mobile version, period, or at least unbroken viewport scaling.
That's pretty nice. Personally I use Atlassian's SourceTree which provides a nice shell in addition to their GUI and lets me do git the way I do on Mac and Linux. It works with GitHub nicely.
> Two years ago we launched GitHub for Windows as the
> easiest way to use Git and GitHub on Windows.<p>Is this suitable for dealing with git repos in general, or just github ones? I'd like to recommend my client a git thing they can use on Windows, but I'd like it to not be tied to github.
Looks good and feels much more responsive.<p>One feature I'd like to see would be interacting with issues instead of having to go to the website. Also, when writing a commit message, it'd be nice to have autocomlete on issue numbers too.
Misleading title... Definitely read this as a version of GitHub software that works on Windows 2.0 (as in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2.0" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2.0</a>).