Re: Anyone running GIT on native Windows

[Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>]

Hi,

On Mon, 7 May 2007, Aaron Gray wrote:

> > > On 5/7/07, Johannes Sixt <J.Sixt@eudaptics.com> wrote:
> > > > Aaron Gray wrote:
> > > > > What I want is to be able to work in Windows CMD and envoke .sh 
> > > > > scripts by association (unfortunately you have to add the .sh on 
> > > > > the command name though).
> > > >
> > > > I run the mingw port exclusively from CMD without a .sh 
> > > > association. So exclusively that I don't even know whether any 
> > > > other way of using the tools even works. Of course, you have to 
> > > > get used to
> > > 
> > > Is it public available?
> > 
> > gitweb: http://repo.or.cz/w/git/mingw.git
> > clone:  git://repo.or.cz/git/mingw.git
> > 
> > I only have either time to hack on mingw.git or a Windows 
> > installation, but not both at the same time. Therefore, the port is 
> > now a bit falling back (it's still at 1.5.1). I hope to be able to 
> > change this in a few weeks.
> 
> Great I will check this out when I get some time.
> 
> An .sh to c converter would be the best solution. I will be looking into 
> how hard this would be to do.

NACK.

A stupid .sh to c converter will almost certainly result in slow and 
hard-to-debug code.

If you had bothered to check, you'd know that there are ongoing efforts to 
do the ports properly.

Ciao,
Dscho