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Windows Git Participation

I’d like to see more users on Git and to do that it needs to have a robust Windows client like TortoiseCVS and TortoiseSVN. It turns out there is such a client, called Cheetah.

There is a UNIX-like runtime environment on Windows called MinGW and a minimum install set called msys. When you download Git to a Windows machine it includes msys and all the awesome *NIX commands and filters I can’t live without.The corresponding project page for Git running with msys is here: Git on Google Code.

In order to promote Git, I joined the msysGit Google group and offered my help to Johannes Schindelin. It looks like they might need some help managing requirements and bug tracking.

Also, weird karma - my first job after college was a summer job at theMax Planck Institutes and Johannes is there now.

Verify or Map a Drive in One Command

In order to verify that a drive is mapped on Windows, and if not, map it, and then have the command complete with a successful return code, use this command:

dir O: > nul || net use O: \\computer\myshare

It should only return a fail code when it is unable to map a drive. I’m using this in one of my Mojo workflow activities…