Re: GIT on MinGW problem

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

Hi,

On Tue, 29 May 2007, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote:

> Johannes Sixt said the following on 29.05.2007 12:54:
> > Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
> > > Johannes Sixt escreveu:
> > > > * git without an correct git subcommand should list 20 or so
> > > > commands, but it doesn't. The list is just empty.
> > > there was a problem in generate cmd list,  (I have sort in /bin/
> > > ). I recommend to add
> > 
> > Strange. Here, MSYS aliases /usr to /, hence /usr/bin/sort is the
> > same as /bin/sort.
> > 
> > (For the curious ones: The MinGW port has to replace occurrences of
> > 'sort' by '/usr/bin/sort', otherwise Windows's 'sort' would be
> > picked up in shell scripts, because the latter usually comes first
> > in %PATH%^W$PATH. Same for 'find'.)
> 
> I get that here too, no matter what I set the mount point to be, and without
> the fstab file at all.
> 
> Also, the /bin/gitk.bat file should rather be
>     @"%~d0%~p0wish84.exe" "%~d0%~p0gitk" %*
> than the current hardcoded path. (Probably won't work with command.com, but
> who uses that for development nowadays anyways, right ;-)

We're open source, so we _can_ do better than leaving people stuck on 
older hardware behind.

And I don't know what this garbage means. (I checked with GMane, and it 
looks the same there.) I'd rather have something readable, even if it is 
slightly slower or has to be adjusted when installing.

Ciao,
Dscho