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From: "Aaron Gray" <angray@beeb.net>
Subject: Re: Anyone running GIT on native Windows
Date: Sat, 12 May 2007 03:23:04 +0100
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> Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
>> http://lilypond.org/git/binaries/mingw/git-1.5.1-1.mingw.exe
>
> This resulted in a mostly working git toolset after I've done this in
> addition to installing it:
>
> - Installed MSYS (of course ;)
> - Install libiconv-2.dll, which can be found in
> diffutils-2.8.7-1-dep.zip from
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435 (available in
> Section Snapshot->MSYS) (rename libiconv2.dll to libiconv-2.dll)
> - Set the path to MSYS and Git manually.

This direct link is better. The above link does not take you to the correct 
place.

http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=23617&use_mirror=kent&filename=diffutils-2.8.7-1-dep.zip&19135304

> For extra bonus points, I should also have installed
> bash-3.1-MSYS-1.0.11-snapshot.tar.bz2 (without which 'git am' fails) and
> msysDTK-1.0.1.exe for ssh and perl, but I haven't.
>
> gitk and git-gui are untested; they need tcltk-8.4.1-1.exe, of course.

Got GIT :)

Cheers,

Aaron