I've had so many problems using Git on Windows, it's really rather tragic. I thought Github for Windows would be the most mainstream way to get Git installed on Windows. But I cannot get it to reliably work with IDEA.
It seems that it cannot find git.cmd/git.exe.. even though Git's shell works fine. I think this may be because it injects the Git paths when the shell gets launched, NOT by putting them into the system paths. I tried to fool this by adding the "portableGit" paths manually to my system path. But after an auto-update of git, these paths all changed and I am left again without IDEA being able to find git.exe.
Is using the git.exe provided with git for windows a hopeless cause? What distribution of Git works the best for people?
I BELIEVE I am using https authentication to connect to github. SSH keys are more of a pain so although I used them early on with Git, I am not currently. Should I give in and just make SSH keys for all my git uses?
Sorry to ramble but life was so much easier before the git bandwagon came to town. I haven't really enjoyed any of these promised workflow improvements but it might just be my particular use case. I'm either working solo or else needing to keep pretty tightly synced with the others in my team and it just feels like a convoluted Subversion imitation to me in these scenarios.
Any help is appreciated.
