O Martes, 1 de Outubro de 2013 20:34:49 Jan Dudík escribiu:

> I still don't understand, why was abandoned SVN and is there some git

> instead.

>

> In svn times when there was some critical problem, usually was patch after

> some hours. One person wrote it, submited it and other users can download

> and use.

>

> now there was critical bug with interwiki.py, which happened about 15th

> september. In these days was old sourceforge tracker moved to bugzilla, so

> report was lost somewhere. After ten days I reported this bug again[1].

> Three days later there was patch, but we had to wait one week more when

> another developer rewieved this patch.

>

> now there are hundrets of new unconnected articles in wiktionaries,

> wikiquotes, wikinews...

>

> In the meantime there was some diff, from which was possible to patch

> manually scripts [2], but not in plaintext, with tabs instead of spaces;

> and nowhere was complete patched file to download.

Nothing to do with Git, then :)

> The second problem is git: some people on IRC said, that there were many

> people in Hackathon who weren't able to instal git correctly - and all of

> them have PC with Windows - and it were about 80% of people with windows.

> Is somewhere *simple manual* how to install and run git updates on windows?

So, actually, the second problem is people’s unability to find help online.

I suggest looking for a Git GUI. The official Git download page, http://git-scm.com/downloads, provides other, many alternatives: http://git-scm.com/downloads/guis . Also, if these Windows users are TortoiseSVN users, a good candidate might be http://code.google.com/p/tortoisegit/