Yes, I just picked up git for Windows, and it is atrociously unusable. Brutally ...

eps · on Feb 27, 2011

Care to elaborate?

I've been using the whatever default Windows port that is linked from Git's download page for several months bow and there is nothing atrocious about it. It works well and it does differ much from the Linux version. (edit) The command line version that is.

pnathan · on Feb 28, 2011

The GUI is atrocious. I use the GUI for branch visualization, and, well, I had expected something far better.

I use TortoiseHG and I expected parity.

oemera · on Feb 28, 2011

Git was developed for improving Linux Kernel development. You see why they don't care about Windows, right?

xiongchiamiov · on Feb 28, 2011

Most people seem to say that it works just fine. In my limited experience, it was just like git on Linux.

Given that git was created for hosting the Linux kernel, it should be obvious why it's not a first-class citizen.

notJim · on Feb 28, 2011

git gui works wells for me on Windows with msysgit. It's ugly, and there are a good number of small issues, but it definitely provides a reasonable user experience.

And of course, the command line option through msysgit is great.