What's the status of MinGW port.

What's the status of MinGW port.

[Kevin Yu]

Hi,
      GIT is a great tool, but I'm running Windows XP.
      It seems like msysgit hasn't been updated for a long time,
neither has the mingw.git branch.
      Is there any plan to create a native version of GIT on MS Windows?

      Anyway GIT is great. :).


Best wishes.






                                                 Kevin

Re: What's the status of MinGW port.

[Johannes Sixt]

Kevin Yu schrieb:
>       GIT is a great tool, but I'm running Windows XP.
>       It seems like msysgit hasn't been updated for a long time,
> neither has the mingw.git branch.
>       Is there any plan to create a native version of GIT on MS Windows?

There are no plans anymore to create such a thing.

It is already there: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/

If the lack of activity is worrysome to you, you could help create a
release tarball for 1.6.0(.x).

-- Hannes

Re: What's the status of MinGW port.

[dhruva]

Hi,
 I cloned the git repo from 'git://git2.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git'. I had an earlier msysGIT with build environment. I just got into the msys (bash) environment and ran a 'gmake'. It built fine on Windows XP.
 I thank everyone involved in making git work on windoze. It really makes it a lot more easier to push git as a serious dVCS in the corporate world with development hapenning on different platforms :-)
 Once I iron out git-p4, hoping to say "Git the hell out of here ... p4" soon.

A trivial issue in install:
'gmake install' had a small issue in trying to install non existant 'git-shell.exe'. The following trivial patch on master to Makefile handles that:


diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index dfed7ba..d5a3327 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1365,7 +1365,10 @@ install: all
        $(INSTALL) -d -m 755 '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(bindir_SQ)'
        $(INSTALL) -d -m 755 '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(gitexec_instdir_SQ)'
        $(INSTALL) $(ALL_PROGRAMS) '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(gitexec_instdir_SQ)'
-       $(INSTALL) git$X git-upload-pack$X git-receive-pack$X git-upload-archive
$X git-shell$X '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(bindir_SQ)'
+ifndef NO_POSIX_ONLY_PROGRAMS
+       $(INSTALL) git-shell$X '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(bindir_SQ)'
+endif
+       $(INSTALL) git$X git-upload-pack$X git-receive-pack$X git-upload-archive
$X '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(bindir_SQ)'
        $(MAKE) -C templates DESTDIR='$(DESTDIR_SQ)' install
        $(MAKE) -C perl prefix='$(prefix_SQ)' DESTDIR='$(DESTDIR_SQ)' install
 ifndef NO_TCLTK


-dhruva


----- Original Message ----
> From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
> To: Kevin Yu <yujie052@gmail.com>
> Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
> Sent: Monday, 8 September, 2008 12:38:08 PM
> Subject: Re: What's the status of MinGW port.
> 
> Kevin Yu schrieb:
> >       GIT is a great tool, but I'm running Windows XP.
> >       It seems like msysgit hasn't been updated for a long time,
> > neither has the mingw.git branch.
> >       Is there any plan to create a native version of GIT on MS Windows?
> 
> There are no plans anymore to create such a thing.
> 
> It is already there: http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/
> 
> If the lack of activity is worrysome to you, you could help create a
> release tarball for 1.6..0(.x).
> 
> -- Hannes
> 
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Re: What's the status of MinGW port.

[Tait]

> >       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?

Re: What's the status of MinGW port.

[Andreas Ericsson]

Tait wrote:
>>>       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, but I'll say it anyway; Please
read the entire email before responding. You'll save yourself a lot of
embarrassment that way.

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Re: What's the status of MinGW port.

[Tait]

>>>>      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)?

Re: What's the status of MinGW port.

[Peter Harris]

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Tait wrote:
> 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.

Your understanding is flawed. You're probably thinking of MSYS or
CYGWIN. MinGW is a native Win32 port of gcc.

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

MinGW-git is a native Windows application.

Some of the utilities bundled with "msysgit" (eg. bash, rxvt, perl,
and therefore git-svn) use the MSYS POSIX emulation layer, but the git
core is native.

Peter Harris