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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Switching from CVS to GIT
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 07:06:47 -0400
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> Cc: Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de, git@vger.kernel.org, raa.lkml@gmail.com,
>         ae@op5.se, tsuna@lrde.epita.fr, make-w32@gnu.org
> From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:23:37 +0200
> 
> Ok, so I uploaded the most recent preview of the installer to
> 
> http://msysgit.googlecode.com/files/WinGit-1.5.3-preview20071010.exe

Thanks!

> Note, we're about to release an updated version soon. Personally,
> I don't plan to put work in providing tar balls. A working installer
> has higher priority for me.

Fair enough.

> msysgit's GitMe contains all tools from MSYS required to build git.
> It also clones the git source and compiles it. It doesn't install
> anything outside the folder that you chose upon installation.
> 
> I strongly believe it is the easiest way to compile git from source.

Okay, thanks a lot for the info.