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[Lexikos]

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I just noticed the "Clone for Windows" button at GitHub, and it led me to this. Apparently it was released a bit over a month ago. It looks like this should make git much more user-friendly, so maybe we'll see more git/GitHub adoption by AutoHotkey users.

There's more about it in this blog article: GitHub for Windows

[guest3456]

i downloaded it the other day just to look at it. never even tried to set it up cause i'm so anti these new Application Reference type executables... can you even call them executables? i have no clue how they work. doesnt seem like anything is 'installed' on the computer. probably some new fancy .NET thing.

that said, i have been using msysGit for a while now so i dont want to learn something new. i suppose for people who have never used git then this might be good

however, i did fork and push to my first github repo through the normal shell and it was much simpler than i expected, following the git help files. before now, i had only been using git on my machine for personal stuff. i basically know nothing about git other than a few commands.

[Lexikos]

never even tried to set it up cause i'm so anti these new Application Reference type executables...

You're probably referring to ClickOnce deployment, since an "Application Reference" is just a shortcut; a simple text file containing a URL and other details. It's probably a good thing for apps like GitHub which are tied to an online service anyway, since it keeps the app up to date.

probably some new fancy .NET thing.

ClickOnce is hardly new... and the blog article says GitHub for Windows is indeed .NET-based, written in C#.

[guest3456]

yeah i guess that is what i'm referring to. just strange to me to have an auto updating app that doesnt install anywhere that i can see. requires me to reconfigure my mind

[guest3456]

i couldnt even how to launch these type of apps via normal windows shortcuts, i really dont understand them

[fragman]

I'm happy with TortoiseGit. I also prefer whitelisting the versioned files instead of blacklisting the ignored files.

[guest3456]

i'm happy with the normal git bash that comes with the windows git installation, i dont need the GitHub package

[fragman]

In the GitHub for Windows program you need to create filters for ignored files, while in TortoiseGIT you manually add the files you want to have versioned. When I forget to add a filter I always end up with wrong files on the repo while missing files can be added easily (without extra traffic/space and easily noticed).