From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Geoffrey Lee Subject: Re: Windows release Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 08:51:04 -0800 Message-ID: <83d7aaa40902030851l1ddec73fv4f054ef939a8936@mail.gmail.com> References: <450196A1AAAE4B42A00A8B27A59278E70977F81A@EXCHANGE.trad.tradestation.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Feb 03 17:52:42 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LUOVk-0006IF-QO for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:52:33 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752530AbZBCQvI (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Feb 2009 11:51:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752485AbZBCQvH (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Feb 2009 11:51:07 -0500 Received: from mail-qy0-f11.google.com ([209.85.221.11]:47811 "EHLO mail-qy0-f11.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751572AbZBCQvG (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Feb 2009 11:51:06 -0500 Received: by qyk4 with SMTP id 4so2717146qyk.13 for ; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:51:05 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=QXYf8Mh5LXlaVfPcxrimncuvF0Nro2pL0nIXMygnVak=; b=FwRgRRDURULxG7CzlI4xcUm4e0bUWCEKQP5vw9EnoH63KxROkZeha9okpqY59n3++y LAaGIxTsQf/JC0+00lD/mTvS6BakXvJfTsmuyEB9eJYlE99Ving/DoldQrhTsiCZC3Dt ojlwcdJcCxVteWveBXsghiMucjFKtGDyzAios= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Wz2Zn4rBJ8P98GIZY+l7eQkQOkxEamTUYSa0L1mNFG6HJiYwfhtLwFYGfE/BZyPLiV PyAwp3obYeFZ5mOSvRiC2ijqkpmsamc9YEz+yEXvXslufx5Sseko7DQs64XvNn9u5HyQ K7BGfGe4c2Ecj8a2oslaREOLM56WXwsKv3znM= Received: by 10.214.217.5 with SMTP id p5mr8619640qag.342.1233679864844; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:51:04 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Steven Noonan wrote: >> I want to update my git installation to the latest stable version, and >> I'm running Windows. In your download page >> the link next to Cygwin is >> 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