From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steven Grimm Subject: Re: Windows support Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:12:21 +0800 Message-ID: <46A73015.7020306@midwinter.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Dmitry Kakurin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jul 25 13:12:30 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IDen7-0007Oj-7G for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 13:12:29 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756314AbXGYLM0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:12:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757748AbXGYLM0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:12:26 -0400 Received: from 91.86.32.216.static.reverse.layeredtech.com ([216.32.86.91]:50374 "HELO midwinter.com" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1754969AbXGYLMZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 07:12:25 -0400 Received: (qmail 15365 invoked from network); 25 Jul 2007 11:12:25 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=200606; d=midwinter.com; b=Vfe37ItY8iIu6/onRNoA/f2plYvSgkMwkBiwWQacXAsysuODU60jJtn1INc0Svw1 ; Received: from localhost (HELO sgrimm-mbp.local) (koreth@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 25 Jul 2007 11:12:25 -0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (Macintosh/20070716) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Dmitry Kakurin wrote: > How serious are you guys about Windows support? Well, it's really a matter of someone stepping up and doing the work. Much (nearly all?) of the core git team never touches Windows, so they both have no selfish motivation to get it working well and no way to test their changes even if they decide to take it up for the greater good. As has been pointed out, there are a lot of people coming to the list and asking for Windows support, but precious few actually contributing any code. If everyone who asked for Windows support had been willing to fix one Windows-related issue, git's Windows support would be stellar by now. I'm as guilty as anyone of asking for stuff without doing it myself, so I say this as an observation, not an accusation! > I'm talking fully-functional port, not Cygwin. There is a port that uses MinGW instead of Cygwin, FYI. It is still perhaps not as native-Windows-like as one might prefer, but it should be less alien than Cygwin, anyway. -Steve