Git for Windows XP - various issues

Question

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The situation is this, in the department several developers, on all Windows, began to use Git in development. (msysgit for windows). Many still have XP, and some have 7k.

As a convenient tool (so that menus, windows and a minimum of console) for managing Git, they took TortoiseGit.
Everyone who has Windows 7 - everything works fine. Commit, merge and sync. No problem.
Who has XP - the jambs are solid: who has the encoding, who does not plow the Cyrillic alphabet, who does not want to synchronize or commit. In general, everyone has their own problems.

They installed everything from one file, both msysgit and TortoiseGit.
Versions (latest available on the sites):
TortoiseGit 1.5.8.0
git version 1.7.3.1.msysgit.0

Questions to the community:
1. What would you advise in this situation? Switching to Linux is not suitable for a number of reasons.
2. What other Git builds are there for both the client itself and the GUI client?
3. Hg (Mercurial) or Bazaar - how do they behave under Windows XP / 7?

Answer 1

3. We used Mercurial on a zoo of OS (XP, 7, Ubuntu, CentOS), everything is the same everywhere - however, everything worked from the console.

Answer 2

I'm using msysgit 1.6.5.1 (I used an earlier version on another machine, I don't remember the numbers). One gets the feeling that with each new version it gets worse and worse :)
I didn't use TortoiseGit, Git Bash was enough. The main problem is that the git:// protocol does not work, you have to do everything through http:// (maybe your hands.sys fail?), There were no problems with encodings and other things.

Answer 3

> As a convenient tool (for menus, windows and a minimum of console) for managing Git, they took TortoiseGit.
Install SmartGit :)
You can try to set the repository encoding in ./.git/config or ~/.gitconfig, but I didn't have such problems.

Answer 4

Here is a git with support for Cyrillic, or rather, UTF8: code.google.com/p/utf8-git-on-windows/downloads/list

Answer 5

Try GitExtensions

Answer 6

I also suffered with Git - I couldn’t install it on XP, then some other problems. In general, I solved all the problems by installing the portable version of Gitportable . The portable version works great with windows XP, no problems with installation or further work in this program.