Re: Git on MSys (or how to make it easy for Windows users to compile git)

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

Hi,

On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

> On 8/3/07, Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com> wrote:
> > > I finally broke down, waiting for the sourceforge project to get
> > > granted. In the meantime, I registered a project at
> > >
> > > http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/
> > >
> > > (WARNING: temporary only!)
> > >
> > > Would you believe that Google code has a restriction to 20MB per
> > > file, and 100MB in total, and you cannot remove files?  The same
> > > Google that gives you 1TB mail space and counting?  Yes, it is
> > > ludicrous.
> > >
> > > Anyway, you can get a complete Development environment in 3 files
> > > (because one would be too large), and... oh well, just read what is
> > > written on the website if you're really interested.
> >
> > Great effort Johannes!
> > The package work perfectly on XP.
> > I'm trying to get it to work under Wine, but it (Wine) is not playing
> > nice with me at the moment. (The whole system barfs of "Access Denied"
> > and other things. Grrr)
> 
> Even if it installs ok under Wine, git may not work properly because a
> bug in dup2() not duplicating to 0-2 and some others that I think only
> affect tests. So get XP if you can or prepare to fix Wine along the
> way.

I do not have XP.  So I very much would appreciate any work done on Wine.  

As it happens, I have a hanging rxvt now (still investigating what causes 
it; ever since wine-0.9.30-466-gb0e9d7e it stopped working for me).

Ciao,
Dscho