[Plplot-devel] Best git version for Windows?

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

To Jim, Phil, and Arjen:

On 2017-02-20 00:38-0500 Jim Dishaw wrote:

> I need your help to sort out git.  Long story short, I had a disk
corruption on the VM that I was doing my development work and had to
recover my work.  I manage to get my wingdi driver recovered from the
smoking heap.

@Jim:

My sympathies concerning your hardware troubles.  I am especially
sensitive to that issue because I just went through a hardware scare
myself (spent a lot of yesterday running hardware tests when I ran
into the *.pyc corruption issue).  But amazingly this 9-year-old
hardware (with an ASUS motherboard which might be the reason for this
longevity) still passes all hardware tests, and I have concluded (with
a fair amount of confidence) that the *.pyc corruption issue must be
due to some Python bug.  So I plan to keep using this hardware for
a while longer.

> Unfortunately, I appear to be having problems with the git
repository on SourceForge and I am not sure of the cause—I cannot even
clone from SourceForge.

@Jim, Phil, and Arjen:

I used the git SF server just this morning with no issues.  Also, for
the reasons discussed in README.developers you should avoid all gui
versions or "enhanced" versions of git (i.e., try to stick as much as
possible to the real thing).  Bearing those constraints in mind, that
file recommends <https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit> for Windows
users, but I just discovered from looking at that site that it has
been obsoleted and msysgit developers now recommend using the "Git for
Windows" <https://git-for-windows.github.io/> version of git instead.
(I confirmed from that website it considers itself light-weight
[check!] and it does have a command-line version [check!]).  So please
give the command-line version of that project a try, and let us know
whether it works well for you (which would allow us to recommend that
Windows version of git in our README.developers file).

Alan
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