I made the decision to try each of the different hosting sites
to compare the experience.
Here is my experience for GitHub
PRO: Setting up an account was pretty easy
usr: [deleted]
psw: [deleted]
CON: The need to download software is not expected and not desired but I will do this
Git: 14.8MB
Puts code int C:\Program Files\Git
Chose 'Run Git from the Windows Command Prompt'
Chose 'Checkout Windows style, commit Unix style line endings'
Installation time about 5 minutes
Windows installer then popped up and said 'Please wait while Window configures Microsoft Office
Single Image 2010'
I then got the message 'The feature you are trying to use is on a network resource that is unavailable"
It is looking for 'SingleImageWW.msi'
I hit CANCEL and then got the message 'Unable to execute file:
C:\Program Files\Git\ReleaseNotes.rtf'
CON: I now learn that it is necessary to separately down load a GUI for Git. NOT good.
In attempting to do that I learned that GUI Git for Windows package requires .NET
There is absolutely no way that I will download that beast. GB of storage necessary!
I hit CANCEL immediately. Hence since I will not operate from a DOS command line prompt
to execute Git and since I will not use .NET that makes GitHub unusable for me.
Why is all this extra stuff necessary????
-Doug Danforth
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Received on Fri Aug 30 2013 - 02:46:25 UTC