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From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
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Alex Riesen wrote:
> On 3/2/06, Christopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx> wrote:
> 
>>Are we *really* contemplating porting git to native Windows?
>>
> 
> 
> Actually, I wasn't thinking about that when I was writing that mail,
> but ... why not?


For the same reason we don't support Perl 5.4. It's too much effort for 
too little gain. OTOH, if you want to do the effort, I won't mind taking 
the gain. ;)

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