Windows support

[krlvi]

Tracking windows support

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Edit by @Qix-

Hello everyone, Windows support is live. See #2594 (comment) and https://gitbutler.com for links!

[francois-joubert]

Really looking forward trying this out on my win machine! Any chance this would run on WSL in the meantime?

[anaisbetts]

@francois-joubert It seems to run on my WSL instance but has DPI scaling issues that makes it unusable:

[Cerabbite]

@anaisbetts What kind of monitor do you have? On my Dell XPS 17 monitor it looks fine.

The only problem is that the login does not work, I don't know if that has to do with it running in WSL.

[KroniK907]

I installed firefox on my wsl instance and set it as my default browser using microsoft RDP to get into the settings app for the wsl instance (basic instructions for connecting via rdp here). Once I had a working default browser setup, I was able to complete the sign in process and have all features working via wsl.

[anaisbetts]

@Cerabbite This is on my laptop screen @ 200% scaling

[KroniK907]

I have created a gist that provides a complete walkthrough for getting GitButler working on WSL: https://gist.github.com/KroniK907/24c6edafa2b34af773dc9466dd7e4e00

I have reduced the steps as much as possible, and provided instructions for installing both the AppImage version as well as the .deb version. The deb version takes 4 terminal commands and less than 2 minutes to get running, and while the AppImage version requires a little bit more effort to set up, allows for the app to update itself, rather than requiring a manual .deb install for each new release.

Important note: this solution is really only practical if you are willing to set up your dev environment in WSL. Trying to make the WSL gitbutler instance interact with a project stored on the windows filesystem can be laggy or not work at all if it's a big enough project.

[Cerabbite]

@KroniK907 Thank you, this was way faster than my way which was compiling it from scratch. Though it is still very unstable for me.

But I'll keep trying to see if I can fix my issues

Edit: After restarting git-butler a couple of time it worked fine

[Ronsku]

Looking forward to Windows support! 🥳
Are there any time estimations?

[GIRU-GIRU]

Another windows user praying for win support, Unreal Engine dev not a great experience on linux, WSL is abit much effort as well

[Cerabbite]

@GIRU-GIRU I got GitButler setup on WSL in a matter of minutes. (I did already have WSL setup)

I used this guide by @KroniK907

I have created a gist that provides a complete walkthrough for getting GitButler working on WSL: https://gist.github.com/KroniK907/24c6edafa2b34af773dc9466dd7e4e00

[KroniK907]

Looks like according to a comment on my gist that the WSL solution is really only viable if you are hosting your repos in WSL, otherwise the lag of having WSL access the windows file system makes it rather laggy and hard to use at best, and completely times out and is not useable at worst.

However, if you are able to use WSL as your dev environment it works really nicely.

[KroniK907]

Updated my gist to add instructions for installing GitButler as an AppImage. The main reason for adding the AppImage install instructions was because the AppImage version can update itself, while the .deb has to be manually updated for each release.

Because the team is adding improvements and releasing new updates quickly, it seemed practical to provide install instructions for a version that did not require as much effort to keep up to date.

[impoetk]

I have and use WSL but my repos are windows only (WPF) looking forward for windows support