Re: [PATCH] Use find instead of perl in t5000 to get file modification time

[Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>]

Johannes Schindelin, Sat, Nov 01, 2008 21:37:14 +0100:
> On Sat, 1 Nov 2008, Alex Riesen wrote:
> > Johannes Schindelin, Sat, Nov 01, 2008 01:23:32 +0100:
> > > 
> > > Well, if you install Git for Windows (as opposed to cygwin), it is 
> > > minimum hassle, and Perl is delivered right with it.
> > 
> > I'd like to try it again, but weren't ther some fatal problems with 
> > cygwin1.dll being in PATH? I always work either in Cygwin's bash or just 
> > have to have it in PATH, because of the build environment even being 
> > strictly Windows based (case-insensitive and alike) just have to use 
> > sane tooling in its scripts.
> 
> I was talking about Git for Windows, i.e. the result of msysGit (as 
> opposed to Git in Cygwin).
> 
> So no, there have not been any conflicts with cygwin1.dll in the PATH, as 
> far as I can recall.  There have been problems with shell utilities being 
> found in the Cygwin PATH before being found in the MSys PATH, but I 
> thought we just prepended the MSys PATH to avoid that.  Haven't checked, 
> though.

Ok, I'll give it a try.

> > > P.S.: some guys at the GSoC mentor summit convinced me in at least 
> > > trying to fix _their_ problems on msysGit, so chances are good I'll 
> > > fix issues you would encounter in the same run.
> > 
> > Do you still plan to distribute MinGW with it? It's very nice to be able 
> > to track Junio's repo, have own branches and rebuild Git from time to 
> > time. For me, at least.
> 
> You mean to distribute a minimal MSys environment where you have bash?  
> Yes, we have to do that, as there are still too many important parts of 
> Git written in Shell.

No, the mingw compiler and libraries. I vaguely remember some talking
about including the build environment into Git distribution.