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From: Dennis Kaarsemaker <dennis@kaarsemaker.net>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
	Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] config.mak.uname: support MSys2
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 20:23:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1452712985.18946.2.camel@kaarsemaker.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160113161128.GA11898@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On wo, 2016-01-13 at 11:11 -0500, Jeff King wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 02:30:53PM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
> > For a long time, Git for Windows lagged behind Git's 2.x releases
> > because
> > the Git for Windows developers wanted to let that big jump coincide
> > with
> > a well-needed jump away from MSys to MSys2.
> > [...]
> 
> I can't say much about the patch itself, but I think this commit is
> worth it for the message alone. Now I finally know the subtle
> differences between all of those systems!

Agreed. It might even make sense to have that explanation somewhere in
Documentation/technical/

-- 
Dennis Kaarsemaker
www.kaarsemaker.net

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-01-13 19:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-13 13:30 [PATCH 0/5] Fix compile errors with MSys2 Johannes Schindelin
2016-01-13 13:30 ` [PATCH 1/5] config.mak.uname: support MSys2 Johannes Schindelin
2016-01-13 16:11   ` Jeff King
2016-01-13 16:45     ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-01-13 19:23     ` Dennis Kaarsemaker [this message]
2016-01-13 13:31 ` [PATCH 2/5] config.mak.uname: supporting 64-bit MSys2 Johannes Schindelin
2016-01-21 10:36   ` SZEDER Gábor
2016-01-21 13:51     ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-01-13 13:31 ` [PATCH 3/5] nedmalloc: allow compiling with MSys2's compiler Johannes Schindelin
2016-01-13 19:28   ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-13 13:31 ` [PATCH 4/5] compat/mingw: support MSys2-based MinGW build Johannes Schindelin
2016-01-13 13:31 ` [PATCH 5/5] compat/winansi: support compiling with MSys2 Johannes Schindelin
2016-01-13 19:31 ` [PATCH 0/5] Fix compile errors " Junio C Hamano
2016-01-14  6:53   ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-01-14 16:51 ` [PATCH v2 " Johannes Schindelin
2016-01-14 16:51   ` [PATCH v2 1/5] config.mak.uname: support MSys2 Johannes Schindelin
2016-01-14 21:45     ` Johannes Sixt
2016-01-14 16:51   ` [PATCH v2 2/5] config.mak.uname: supporting 64-bit MSys2 Johannes Schindelin
2016-01-14 16:51   ` [PATCH v2 3/5] nedmalloc: allow compiling with MSys2's compiler Johannes Schindelin
2016-01-14 16:51   ` [PATCH v2 4/5] compat/mingw: support MSys2-based MinGW build Johannes Schindelin
2016-01-14 16:52   ` [PATCH v2 5/5] compat/winansi: support compiling with MSys2 Johannes Schindelin
2016-01-14 20:21   ` [PATCH v2 0/5] Fix compile errors " Junio C Hamano
2016-01-14 21:57   ` Johannes Sixt

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