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Matthieu Moy wrote:
> Visual Studio now has official Git support from MS (based on libgit2 if
> I understood correctly). That's cool, but not a reason to kill msysgit
> IMHO ;-).

Oh, I'm not interested in killing anything.  If people want msysgit,
they will work on it: I'm nobody to say otherwise.  I was just curious
to know why msysgit is suffering from a lack of attention: fewer
users?

> Whether it's based on POSIX is an implementation detail for the user.
> The real question is more command-line Vs GUI than POSIX/Win32. Some
> Linux users like GUI, some windows users use command-line. I tried IDE
> integration with EGIT, and quite frankly I ended-up doing all the Git
> stuff in a terminal next to Eclipse.

I see.  But isn't it possible to implement a CLI in libgit2 too, no?