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From: Tait <git.git@t41t.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What's the status of MinGW port.
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 11:18:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080908181848.GI27478@ece.pdx.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <48C50B76.7070506@op5.se>

>>>>      Is there any plan to create a native version of GIT on MS Windows?
>>>There are no plans anymore to create such a thing.
>>
>>Out of curiosity, any particular reason why not?
>
> He mentioned it in the very next sentence: It already exists.
>
> I guess this is beyond your attention span...

The personal attack was unnecessary, and no, I'm not inattentive, thank you.

My understanding is that MinGW is a POSIX emulation layer; the underlying
code is still using POSIX functions like fork and exec that aren't native
to Windows. When I said "native" I meant "not POSIX" -- i.e. using the
Windows API directly instead of through some kind of munging layer.

So I'll ask again, is there any particular reason why a _native_ Windows
Git hasn't been attempted (or was abandoned, or whatever)?

  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-08 18:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <42b562540809072128o62854572y1eb8d2e69e7193f1@mail.gmail.com>
2008-09-08  4:34 ` What's the status of MinGW port Kevin Yu
2008-09-08  7:08   ` Johannes Sixt
2008-09-08 11:03     ` Tait
2008-09-08 11:24       ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-09-08 18:18         ` Tait [this message]
2008-09-08 18:30           ` Peter Harris
2008-09-08  8:22 dhruva

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