From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Sixt Subject: Re: [mingw port] Problem starting git subcommands Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:49:15 +0200 Organization: eudaptics software gmbh Message-ID: <4691F68B.832047D1@eudaptics.com> References: <87eacd830707081126x69b2edb3o9fd89733ff2258f4@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jul 09 10:49:00 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I7ovS-0005Z4-G6 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:48:58 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751492AbXGIIst (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 04:48:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751290AbXGIIst (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 04:48:49 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:34701 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751492AbXGIIss (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jul 2007 04:48:48 -0400 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1I7ovF-0006Gc-6E for git@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:48:45 +0200 Received: from cm56-163-160.liwest.at ([86.56.163.160]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:48:45 +0200 Received: from J.Sixt by cm56-163-160.liwest.at with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 09 Jul 2007 10:48:45 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cm56-163-160.liwest.at X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Henning Rogge wrote: > > I have experimented with GIT on my linux system successfully but one > of my projects has to be done on Windows (neither VMware Workstation > nor Wine can help at the moment) so I got a copy of the mingw port of > GIT (http://lilypond.org/git/binaries/mingw/git-1.5.2.1-1.mingw.exe). > > Installation succeeded without a single error but when I tried to run > a few GIT commands I noticed a "bug": > > the git.exe command does not recognize any scripted subcommand > (git-clone in my case) ! > > C:\Programme\Git>git clone > > git: 'clone' is not a git-command > > Do I need another software package ? I tried to install the Mingw > package itself, but it did not help at all. Yes, you need a shell and some Posix tools. Install MSYS, e.g. MSYS-1.0.11-2004.04.30-1.exe You will also want a ssh and perl, e.g. from msysDTK-1.0.1.exe and MinGW's tcl/tk from tcltk-8.4.1-1.exe Also, git-am seems to require bash 3.1, e.g. from bash-3.1-MSYS-1.0.11-snapshot.tar.bz2 -- Hannes