Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] WinGit - native x86/x64 Git for Windows

[Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 05:35:07PM +0400, Marat Radchenko wrote:
> > there are no 64 bit binaries shipped with msysgit is that nobody
> > needed them
> 
> That's wrong. Google for 'windows x64 git' or 'msysgit x64'. People
> need it. There's even an issue [3] (stalled several years ago) in
> msysgit tracker.  After all, I needed it.

Do not get me wrong. I was saying until now nobody "needed" it in a way
that he/she would do something about it. Of course there are many people
requesting it, but I just do not count those people anymore. You are
clearly doing something about it and thats great, I like it.

What I am trying to achieve here is that you join the msysgit community.
There already is just a very small amount of developers on the windows
side (compared to upstream). We should try to all work together. I think
it will greatly add to confusion if we have another installer of Git for
Windows. I think the msysgit community is quite open for changes like
the ones you are trying to achieve.

Regarding mingwGitDevEnv[2]: That is a project started by Sebastian who
also contributes to msysgit (and Git for Windows). It eventually can
(and probably should) be a successor of the current situation where we
always manually patch, build and commit our binaries into a git
repository. A proper package management system would greatly help here.
But AFAIK its not ready for production use yet. I guess Sebastian would
not mind contributions.

Cheers Heiko

> [1] https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/issues/31
> [2]: https://github.com/sschuberth/mingwGitDevEnv
> [3]: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=396

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