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kouno · on Oct 23, 2012

You are reading it wrong. "Gitlab does not run on Windows" means that you should deploy this on a linux _server_. You can still use windows on your local machine, and push your changes to a linux box. It's true that you will have to have another machine, or a virtual box to use gitlab, but I believe that's how small/medium companies work.

mapleoin · on Oct 23, 2012

Also , even though I share you sentiments on Windows, adding: "Gitlab does not run on Windows and we have no plans of making Gitlab compatible."

AFAICS Gitlab is server software. You can run whatever you want on your dev machine.

I assume you didn't mean you want to run your own GitLab server on each dev machine, I don't see how that would make sense.

Adirael · on Oct 23, 2012

They mean Windows servers, not clients.

mapleoin · on Oct 23, 2012

I'm aware of that, but the parent was referring to clients.

callmebison · on Oct 23, 2012

> There exist plenty of genuine windows devs out there that use git, or devs that switch between OS'es for different tasks (myself included, I'd boot up windows to work on graphics/games)

Yes, but you probably shouldn't be running a code hosting platform on one of your developer workstations. I'm pretty sure it would work from a client point of view (it's still git after all), just that they won't support you running their web app on windows.