I do .NET development on my Mac, and for source code management I use Git from the Mac Terminal window. But once I’ve developed the code, I have to get it onto the company’s development server, which is a Windows machine behind a firewall. I do this using git on Windows.
There are multiple choices for Git on Windows, but I chose the MSysGit route. I used putty to get around the firewall issues. I also had to set the whitespace setting in the MSysGit repo to match what it is by default on Unix — without that, things still worked but Git would change Windows-typical line endings to Unix line endings, causing a diff to think every single line had changed.
Once I worked through all that, everything worked beautifully (and it has for months now). I code on my machine, push to a GitHub repo, and the pull from GitHub to the Development Server (using MSysGit / Putty).
I culled through 100′s of articles while getting this set up. Here are the hand-picked articles that were the most helpful for me.
- http://kylecordes.com/2008/04/30/git-windows-go/
- http://blog.codeslower.com/2008/8/Using-PuTTY-and-SSL-to-securely-access-GitHub-repositories-via-SSH
- http://souptonuts.sourceforge.net/sshtips.htm
- http://www.andrewtrommer.com/2008/10/27/git-and-corporate-proxies/
- http://richfrog.curzons.net/2008/05/git-with-putty-on-windows.html
