Re: [Ietf-and-github] Seeking feedback on draft-ietf-git-using-github and Git tutorial

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Tue, 08 October 2019 19:12 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Ietf-and-github] Seeking feedback on draft-ietf-git-using-github and Git tutorial
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Hi ben,
On 09-Oct-19 04:50, Benjamin Kaduk wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 06, 2019 at 08:51:16AM +1300, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>>
>> My experience is that the desktop app is sufficient for most purposes; it's pretty rare that I have to use the CLI. Incidentally, make is a Unixism that doesn't exist in Windows. So that part of the tool chain isn't portable afaik.
> 
> nmake and jom exist, though most projects I work with end up with separate
> makefiles for windows and unix usage because the needed rules for
> compiling/linking C are so different.

Are they well documented? In any case it seems that I am right about non-portability.

Thanks
   Brian