2010/6/13 Rafaël Carré <rafael.carre_at_gmail.com>:

> I know some VLC developers use git on windows:
> http://wiki.videolan.org/Git_Windows (did you try the msysgit?)
>
> But I don't know how badly it works, I just assume using native unix
> tools on windows is painful and using a VM is the easiest way: setup
> some way to make file transfers between windows and the VM, then you're
> done.

We in LilyPond use this VM approach to ease the development process to
Windows users. An iso image is ready to use with git and every tool
needed to perform the compilation. See

  http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/contributor/using-a-virtual-machine-to-compile-lilypond
  http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.13/Documentation/contributor/working-with-source-code

etc. (warning: work in progress.)

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