TractoR [http://www.tractor-mri.org.uk], the medical image analysis platform for which I am the main developer and maintainer, is built on the multiplatform R language [http://www.r-project.org], but much of its additional infrastructure is Unix-based. That has meant that researchers using Windows have previously had to

Two of the nice things about git [http://git-scm.com/] are the ability to create lightweight branches, and the ability to rewrite commit history to rationalise things after the fact. As a relatively recent migrant from Subversion, however, these are things that I sometimes forget about, and I therefore don't