Thanks for the useful link.  However, MPLAB X appears to have support only
for CVS, Mercurial and Subversion.  I'm a complete novice when it comes to
git so I may be missing something here.  Do I need to install some sort of
plug in for Netbeans in order to get it to show up in MPLAB X?

John Hansen


On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Peter Johansson <rockets4kids@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 2:03 AM, Bob Blick <bobblick@ftml.net> wrote:
>
> > Will git work easily on Windows without Cygwin? Actually I just did a
> > quick search and it looks like there's something called msysgit for
> > Windows that works without cygwin.
>
> The *best* way to use git (or any revision control system, for that
> matter) is when the interface is integrated directly into your editor
> or IDE.  Some editors provide a more or less transparent method for
> dealing with revision control so that you use the same commands
> regardless of which RCS you are using.
>
> This is not a new concept, btw.  It has existed in Emacs at least
> since I started using it, and that was over 25 years ago.  A quick
> google search reveals that it is available in NetBeans:
>
> https://netbeans.org/kb/docs/ide/git.html
>
> If you are using MPLAB-X, this is probably the way to go.
>
> -p.
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