From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Erik Faye-Lund Subject: Re: Running git on Windows command line Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:04:34 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1A9EA7E081C3FE46A0F446FFB66D10EB939B8A@FL01EXMB01.trad.tradestation.com> <1A9EA7E081C3FE46A0F446FFB66D10EB939D37@FL01EXMB01.trad.tradestation.com> <1A9EA7E081C3FE46A0F446FFB66D10EB939DAC@FL01EXMB01.trad.tradestation.com> Reply-To: kusmabite@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" To: John Dlugosz X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 22 23:04:42 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Oc2wb-0007tY-MZ for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 23:04:42 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752352Ab0GVVEg convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:04:36 -0400 Received: from mail-wy0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:37717 "EHLO mail-wy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751711Ab0GVVEf convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:04:35 -0400 Received: by wyf19 with SMTP id 19so994800wyf.19 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:04:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:reply-to :in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=lUmezM00fAEM+LO4bmn2zjyl1ucKbpwrDGwAIYmt1Po=; b=t1YYDkMhvQd1BodMCSVBxkv2b5nNNFz/x8WRV4IhxwrBjeWpNelI9aTTygFSj8k2lI +5/eG5mS07i8RnseNph1VZybqagIvMCM7hXa9wT5TzgkPfhzAHm7h6I48irZRVuMbaD0 Mht6kFdUY6lc/jHuxZwKLA4c+xxOQ3W3bSphs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Ig7QV1waF3ksJTqzr1FAoUp1HamIQHnvQg0MW3DKaNcZn++MrThT2BKGPqYafIWaGp 0TM+2O6xveUN15d3YmbCsJXGoTYYR2whFw4tBWLhLejjERJAb8HVuu+mdC42Rh1dfXiQ 57QacwOnukt2bk1qhHobnuakxhedZgZErRFHw= Received: by 10.216.181.213 with SMTP id l63mr2504604wem.24.1279832674286; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:04:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.70.67 with HTTP; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:04:34 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1A9EA7E081C3FE46A0F446FFB66D10EB939DAC@FL01EXMB01.trad.tradestation.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:55 PM, John Dlugosz wrote: >> It sounds to me like you've installed indeed Git for Windows (which = is >> the end-user product from the msysGit-project); the msysGit installe= rs >> doesn't show a wizard with questions, it just installs a >> self-contained development environment. >> >> You can tell the packages apart by the name: >> * Git-something.exe and PortableGit-something.exe are installers for >> Git for Windows. >> * msysGit-netinstall-something.exe and >> msysGit-fullinstall-something.exe are installers for msysGit, the >> development environment used to develop Git for Windows. >> >> I hope this clears up a bit. >> >> -- >> Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund > > OK, "Git-1.7.0.2-preview20100309.exe" installed something that identi= fies itself as "git version 1.7.0.2.msysgit.0" > > The web page is identified as "msysgit" with "git for windows" in sma= ll type under it, which I take to be a descriptive statement, not a pro= duct name also. =A0The downloads call them "Full installer for official= Git" (what I used) and "...if you want to hack on Git". > > The usage on this mailing list has always been "msysgit" as this wind= ows variant git, as opposed to the Cygwin build. =A0Mentioning that is = necessary for accurate help. =A0I mentioned msysgit as the keyword nece= ssary when asking for help, not to mean I installed the development sou= rce. I'm aware of all this, but I don't think you're hearing me: the reason why the behavior has changed for you is very likely to be you having switched package. Yes, the naming is confusing. --=20 Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund