From: Geoffrey Lee <geoffreyj.lee@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Windows release
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 08:51:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d7aaa40902030851l1ddec73fv4f054ef939a8936@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f488382f0902030842x6e7466ffm4668abde23e67bea@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net> wrote:
>> I want to update my git installation to the latest stable version, and
>> I'm running Windows. In your download page
>> <http://git-scm.com/download> the link next to Cygwin is
>> <http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe> which would seem to be the installer
>> for Cygwin itself, not for the Cygwin version of the git executables.
>>
>> Am I missing something here?
>>
>> --John
>
> Cygwin doesn't have a binary package system (i.e. rpm, deb, etc), so
> you either have to run the Cygwin installer to get the latest one they
> support or compile it yourself via Cygwin.
>
> - Steven
There is also msysGit if you don't want to deal with Cygwin.
http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/
-Geoffrey Lee
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-03 16:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-03 16:21 Windows release John Dlugosz
2009-02-03 16:42 ` Steven Noonan
2009-02-03 16:51 ` Geoffrey Lee [this message]
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