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Asked: 2026-05-16T22:32:18+00:00

I wanted to download msysgit here , and it says this: here are not

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I wanted to download msysgit here, and it says this: “here are not enough contributors to the msysGit project to offer commercial-grade support; if you do not have the means to fix your problems (possibly with valuable advice from the msysGit mailing list), or to entice people who can fix them, it is unlikely that your problem gets solved. “

This sounds discouraging. Why is that? What are the issues? Is everyone using another distributed source control system?

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I watched the following video Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git. Linus highly recommends git.
I don’t understand the votes to close the question – git is a programmers tool and as such should belong her, right?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The quote you mention is referring more to problems that you create. A huge purpose of “commercial-grade support” is to have someone to contact when you can’t figure out how to dig yourself out of the hole you dove into. The developers naturally can’t and have no desire to fill that role, and that quote is really just them trying to fend off waves of emails from people saying “I ran git clean -xdf and all my files are gone! Help!” An actual bug report would be a very different matter – they want their software to work just as much as you do.

    All that said, msysgit is based on the git everyone else uses, which has a pretty extensive test suite. I think you can count on it for stability as much as you can any VCS at this point.

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