From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.180.0/23 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.8 required=3.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, FROM_EXCESS_BASE64,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by dcvr.yhbt.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63C5D1F453 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2018 16:01:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728335AbeI0WUR (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Sep 2018 18:20:17 -0400 Received: from mail-wm1-f48.google.com ([209.85.128.48]:50530 "EHLO mail-wm1-f48.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1727338AbeI0WUQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Sep 2018 18:20:16 -0400 Received: by mail-wm1-f48.google.com with SMTP id s12-v6so6473251wmc.0 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:01:20 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=from:to:cc:subject:user-agent:date:message-id:mime-version; bh=1Nbiz6YqGWmUMJuqGGm1Nag6g+gW+k2YQBGOy2ol2jk=; b=UTjs923Egc5RJUq5pz/l4B1h0NKUjT48hhkfc1U1rKlR4jZ9ZDwBHdkfB2bOER+oYS gP0oN5b0x7T1Qv4/F9I/WAa/Ij3yqVZm9w050JZa3sTirRNZqrLXYkEeETBJs3dZPOP8 bYRDAnfPsP0Ybhhs92TtAYzT0itYtPMfJlTMVzb1ym+Yx5nly57QjedXuaoUnIe+grvK Sz+kZ5BdOWq+kSVI75MGB1T0GeJUV9zHJzjmCAQgR/0v9gfLpK1Q4bwpp7WU5BpfHC4T xPniJWYVKbE0aAJylZ/ZSOzFRfa6yc+fGB+qYRKw76K5YQW5doU92F2MePJJkTyG6Ora XVLg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:user-agent:date:message-id :mime-version; bh=1Nbiz6YqGWmUMJuqGGm1Nag6g+gW+k2YQBGOy2ol2jk=; b=PTpzxHtY2IQH6j241ZQ0tVUVKrtHZwDNHGXJtd6L5jKtmOAn2XOPIuxfIjvAk8F4+b ArKbo+mUKzvKWTepFfhr4RvdMYi5ui5mfINrXZm8V5XcVSJpjYzl/Uq42d4a8n/mI+pS Cl8AhAO5xcW+yNNOIR1dqKikSyDqx258vxhwG7VjfxcGYJrKE9U3xEqxSH0NlMEkIhEc Ymz1/5SyEueC3vzzptT9WNHW+AwiRbm9L7ju5LNnPoOp9RwFmHR6jHSEp4MXBTewj/ax IHAclrFMgoTHOIvFGsJoqCts1zETlIXZJ5BHsslCyOyVEr+rGlh95CwZ4dMqxfsZvEXI 0oqQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ABuFfojEiVpZcayKF7+7BCyRpDVWKrVrVl3+mjRADbv9imvIY11UekI/ 3OMT8TwIrAG/OpQdJgtQRWuA5j5TiUA= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ACcGV60Kn+hn2uG/KH0qBXfJCboXQS5a7iAXObaBBAelzvMVPbZCSs67LfsImW54AIG8m3xMkldLHA== X-Received: by 2002:a1c:4857:: with SMTP id v84-v6mr8016452wma.8.1538064079780; Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:01:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from evledraar (proxy-gw-l.booking.com. [5.57.20.8]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id x65-v6sm2730650wmg.39.2018.09.27.09.01.19 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-CHACHA20-POLY1305 bits=256/256); Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:01:19 -0700 (PDT) From: =?utf-8?B?w4Z2YXIgQXJuZmrDtnLDsA==?= Bjarmason To: Jonathan Nieder , Johannes Schindelin Cc: git-packagers@googlegroups.com, Git List Subject: Git for Windows for Unix? User-agent: Debian GNU/Linux testing (buster); Emacs 25.2.2; mu4e 1.1.0 Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 18:01:18 +0200 Message-ID: <87va6rhqup.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org I had an IRC conversation with Johannes saying I didn't know Git For Windows builds perfectly well for Linux, this just isn't advertised in the ANNOUNCE E-Mails, so I hadn't tried. Johannes doesn't build his own tarballs, but these are provided at: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/tags diffing https://github.com/git/git/tags v.s. what Junio releases shows: $ diff -ru git-2.19.0 git-2.19.0.gh Only in git-2.19.0: configure Only in git-2.19.0/git-gui: version Only in git-2.19.0: version So to use these you need to grab the GitHub tarball, create a "version" file saying e.g. 2.19.0.windows.1 or whatever it is (derived from the name of the tarball), and if applicable make your own configure script. GFW is a "friendly fork", but a permanent one it seems. The diff between it and 2.19.0 proper is ~10k lines, and e.g. this last release had experimental stash/rebase in C that 2.19.0 didn't. So it would be great if this were packaged up by linux distro as some "alterate" package of git. I'm putting Jonathan in the "To" line because I'm mainly interested in this for Debian, but maybe there's wider interest at git-packagers...