Hey,

I for one will convert to Git when the Explorer integration is done for sure. At the moment i am realy playing with ti to learn how git works, but i want to drop SVN because i use lots of merging and SVN does not cut it for me.

The tree view in the repo gitK is just too unusable.

Please keep up the good work. I am surprised more people are not commenting n this great work.

Yeah, Tortoise-like Git for Windows Explorer would be a bliss! Please keep workin' I bet many people on Windows would convert to Git :)

@wiktor: the big problem is: I do not want many people on Windows to convert to Git, since my experience is that they -- just like you -- expect other people to work for them. IOW I would not get anything except for some thankyous for my work. That is not enough to keep me working.

Johannes, are you indicating that you've abandoned your work on msysgit?

In all but writing, yes. I got too annoyed by people who thought that my time and work was at their disposal.

Johannes, what would it take to bring you back to the table? Donations? Appropriate treatment from the community (ie- respect)? Help in the form of patches, etc?

Fun. I have much more fun elsewhere, and do not get the abuse many Windows users seem to be happy to provide. But thanks for asking.

Gee I just wanted to cheer you. I use command line git tools on Windows and don't have anything against it. I don't know how do you define "abuse" but I was rather thinking about using your software like, I suppose, you use many other tools. Do you think of yourself abusing linux kernel, vim, etc. etc. whatever are you using? I don't believe you took part in every piece of software you have ever used. But maybe I'm wrong. Sorry for disrupting your... fun.

Ehm, you really don't seem to get the point, do you? It's not like johannes is working FOR you. johannes doesn't do stuff he's supposed to get paid for for free. That's not the idea of open source. If you want an OSS project to succeed, start up a community, open up that IRC channel! Write guides on how to use the git version of this for noobs. Do stuff, anything! Search for bugs and send in patches, it doesn't matter. The only thing you guys are currently doing is waiting and saying "dude keep working i won't even send you a cookie for it but still i'd like it".

I hope you got the point now.

It's a shame this project has come to an dead end. I've been using Git for the past month and I must say I really miss having a feature complete GUI like TortoiseSVN where you can do everything you need without touching the command line. I know this is not the linux way but hopefully one day somebody will have the courage to make such a GUI for Git :)

I think TortoiseSVN is the reason why SVN is so popular for Windows users. In my opinion GIT is the best DVCS ever, but not very popular on Windows. And since it is running great on Windows, I think a Tortoise (or Cheetah) for Git would attract lots of Windows users. It would attract me though :)

If you want to cheer people on then check out the source and improve it. Write up bug reports, documentation, etc... And yes, you should do this for all projects, including the Linux kernel.