Re: State of the repository conversion

[David Engster]

Óscar Fuentes writes:
> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> I would encourage git newcomers to just use Magit. It provides a nice UI
>>> for git, requiring very basic knowledge of git's specific features.
>>
>> That's unrelated to the issue at hand, which is how we use git at the
>> project level.
>
> Magit can determine how you use git at the project level. Since it makes
> ordinary tasks quite more simple and less error-prone, git's barroque UI
> is no longer a significant factor.

Since Eli is working on Windows, I don't think Magit is a good solution
for him. It is pretty slow there since it is often doing an excessive
number of calls of the Git binary under the hood.

-David