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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Subject: Re: What's the status of MinGW port.
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:08:08 +0200
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Kevin Yu schrieb:
>       GIT is a great tool, but I'm running Windows XP.
>       It seems like msysgit hasn't been updated for a long time,
> neither has the mingw.git branch.
>       Is there any plan to create a native version of GIT on MS Windows?

There are no plans anymore to create such a thing.

It is already there: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/

If the lack of activity is worrysome to you, you could help create a
release tarball for 1.6.0(.x).

-- Hannes