Re: Git on MSys (or how to make it easy for Windows users to compile git)

[Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com>]

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Mike Pape wrote:
>>>> 3) When "Setting up git" the second time, it feels like the whole thing
>>>> is hanging; have let it run for ~5min now without anything happening.
>>>> Not sure what's going on here. It looks like git.exe was ran with any
>>>> options, but that should not consume 100% CPU.. Hmm
>>> Yep.  I did not test the initial phase, and there is a serious bug in
>>> setup_git_directory_gently() in origin/devel.  I fixed that.
>> Yup, work now.
> 
> Works for me as well now.  One catch is that at work, I'm behind a
> firewall so git:// doesn't work for me.  I have a packaged version
> that adds curl and expat, enables them in the build, and then falls
> back to http:// if git:// fails in /etc/profile.  Is that something
> you'd want up on code.google.com?

Ooo, I'd like your built curl and expat libs in a zip, pretty please! :-)

Then we can add it to the package. The more complete MinGW port, the
better. Do you have anywhere you can put out such a zip, so I can get
ahold of it? You can mail me privately, if you'd like.

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.marius


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