My last post covered how to improve your Git experience on Windows using PowerShell, Posh-Git, and PsGet. However, a commenter reminded me that a lot of folks don’t know how to get Git for Windows in the first place. And once you do get Git set up, how do you avoid getting prompted all the time for your credentials when you push changes back to your repository (or pull from a private repository)? I’ll answer both of those questions in this post. Install msysgit The first step is to install Git for Windows (aka msysgit). The...
I read this article recently that describes the mind frying complexity of the Windows development process. With Vista sporting around 50 million lines of code, it’s no wonder Vista suffers from delays. Quick, what does line #37,920,117 say? Microsoft has acknowledged the need to release more often (as in sometime this millenia), but that agility is difficult to achieve with the current codebase due to its immense complexity as well as Microsoft’s (stubbornly?) heroic efforts to maintain backward compatibilty. The author of the article labels this the Curse of Backward Compatibility. I don’t think anyone doubts that maintaining backwards compatibility can be...