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Hi I like Git but it seems sharing windows projects with people and friends is not fun because gitextensions tortoisegit are ugly to use out of the box compared to tortoisehg or tortoisesvn (not that it's DVCS). Using msysgit just in a bash shell doesn't make it as nice as linux/Mac either.

So is there any new contenders (alpha projects etc(even with other libs))?

I would love to see these new Git libraries take off!

sabgenton
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  • If you think msysgit is fine well I more agree with this guy http://stackoverflow.com/a/2575991/790359 – sabgenton Mar 31 '12 at 04:36
  • But that aside please just tell me if new lib based git's are being developed **that is my question** I don't care who likes what. – sabgenton Mar 31 '12 at 04:37
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    Little offtopic, but if you want good GUI-based Windows Git-client, **you have to see** at SmartGit (Java, but - who cares?) – Lazy Badger Mar 31 '12 at 11:06
  • @LazyBadger Yeah it's awesome for a pay for commercial use (nothing beats it), they currently support msysgit on windows (not cygwin so much etc) I think. – sabgenton Apr 02 '12 at 08:59
  • You said noting originally about commercial vs non-commercial usage, and Syntevo have *reasonable price* – Lazy Badger Apr 02 '12 at 09:20

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After having released Github for Mac, there are rumors that Github might be working on a client for Windows.

See those tweets below for reference:

According to this last one, there are good chances libgit2sharp & libgit2 would be used to help run the client.

Update

  • Github for windows has been released. See this post for further information. Among other open source libraries and software, it indeed relies on libgit2 and LibGit2Sharp.

github-for-windows

  • A work in progress, Git GUI, by Kai Sellgren, also relies on those libs

Git-GUI

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nulltoken
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  • Awesome I hope it come through! – sabgenton Mar 31 '12 at 13:03
  • http://warpspire.com/posts/designing-github-mac/ seems like it's made with libgit2 (not mentioned on http://libgit2.github.com/ yet if it's true) – sabgenton Mar 31 '12 at 13:21
  • Is github for mac going to support mac users push/pulling repos on the mac? or is it just for git hub :S – sabgenton Mar 31 '12 at 13:25
  • Github for Mac is designed to work with GitHub but can be used with any Git server. It's based on [Objective-Git](https://github.com/libgit2/objective-git) which are Objective-C bindings to libgit2 – nulltoken Mar 31 '12 at 15:11
  • github for windows has been released, but it seems that we can only pull from and push to github..... – prime23 May 25 '12 at 08:35
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    @Codest This is incorrect. The **[help page](http://windows.github.com/help.html)** states *"GitHub for Windows is optimized to work with GitHub remotes — but if you wish to use a non-GitHub remote, it will work just fine."* – nulltoken May 25 '12 at 11:43
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GitHub for Windows.

Here's the launch blog post.

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