[Mingw-cross-env-list] git (was: Error on first builsd: unable to download qt-everywhere-opensource-src-4.8.7.tar.gz)

[Tony Theodore]

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>> On 18 Oct 2019, at 19:13, James Garner <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Until 2017 version, M$dev did not use git at all, and even now, that it can 
>> use it, it defaults to something else, so I am a complete neophyte with 
>> git.??

Can you explain “it defaults to something else”?

> Do read up up on `git`, 
[…]
>  once you become accustomed to `git` you won’t have to worry about such 
> things.

Of course, there’s nothing about `git` that can’t be achieved with `darcs`, 
`hg`, `bzr`,… 

If you’re coming from a Visual Studio world, you’ll come to see the paradox of 
choice.

Cheers,


Tony

P.S. are you using WSL for your Fedora instance?