From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Windows support Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2007 19:18:48 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <46A8378A.6050201@xs4all.nl> <46d6db660707260521u15c2bd85j806d48e0f51a3b9@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Jul 26 20:19:25 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IE7vm-0004aE-0O for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jul 2007 20:19:22 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934462AbXGZSSz (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:18:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934549AbXGZSSy (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:18:54 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:51111 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S933542AbXGZSSx (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jul 2007 14:18:53 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 26 Jul 2007 18:18:51 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp057) with SMTP; 26 Jul 2007 20:18:51 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/ftcQFJoffOSkPTLqIz7jtwubvoHy06G/T7Q2N8a b9TkZV3QRyk2f7 X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: > On 7/26/07, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > > Earlier, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: > > > > - MinGW busybox (or gitbox as I call it now) utilizes compat/mingw.c > > > and other stuff like run-command.c... Making it separate (as source > > > code) duplicates code for nothing. > > > > It is not duplication. It is forking. Which is a good thing. > > I still don't see why duplicating compat/*, git-compat-util.h, > run-command.[ch]... and keeping fixing bugs in two places is a good > thing. Actually, it would pretty easy to set up a tracking script with Git, I guess. But I can look into that once you finished your gitbox. Thanks for doing it BTW... Ciao, Dscho