From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: Switching from CVS to GIT Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:20:22 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1192293466.17584.95.camel@homebase.localnet> <1192381040.4908.57.camel@homebase.localnet> <1773C6F0-87BE-4F3C-B68A-171E1F32E242@lrde.epita.fr> <47125F74.9050600@op5.se> <47126957.1020204@op5.se> <20071014221446.GC2776@steel.home> <4712B616.165BBF8D@dessent.net> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de, git@vger.kernel.org, raa.lkml@gmail.com, ae@op5.se, tsuna@lrde.epita.fr, make-w32@gnu.org To: Steffen Prohaska X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Oct 15 10:20:51 2007 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 1IhLBh-00082l-OS for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 10:20:34 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754177AbXJOIUX (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:20:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752060AbXJOIUX (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:20:23 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:57217 "EHLO fencepost.gnu.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751869AbXJOIUX (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:20:23 -0400 Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IhLBW-0006uw-19; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 04:20:22 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Steffen Prohaska on Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:56:40 +0200) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: > Cc: Johannes Schindelin , git@vger.kernel.org, > raa.lkml@gmail.com, ae@op5.se, tsuna@lrde.epita.fr, make-w32@gnu.org > From: Steffen Prohaska > Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:56:40 +0200 > > > While we are at that: can you (or someone else) point me to > > instructions on how to build the MinGW port of GIT? I found a tarball > > of the MinGW-ported GIT (v1.5.3, I think), but what I don't seem to be > > able to find is some kind of HOWTO: what tools I need to have > > installed, how to configure them (if there are any special issues > > there), what command(s) to type, etc. Is there anything like that out > > there, or can someone post such instructions? > > If you want to have a full working development environment, such that > you can start contributing to msysgit right away, and have no firewall > issues, go to > > http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ > > and install GitMe, currently > > http://msysgit.googlecode.com/files/GitMe-0.4.2.exe > > If you only care about an end-user setup, which contains only the git > binaries on your system, but no tools to compile them, stay tuned for > one or two days. We'll release an updated installer soon. Sorry I wasn't clear: I want neither. I don't think I will have enough free time to become an active contributor to GIT any time soon. OTOH, since binaries are not available (and I'd prefer a tarball as opposed to an installer, to be more in control of what's being installed and where), I asked about the development tools (compiler and Binutils, obviously, but what else?) required to build the source tarball with MinGW tools. Do I understand correctly that building GIT currently requires MSYS? That'd be unfortunate, at least for me. Anyway, thanks for replying.