From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Git on MSys (or how to make it easy for Windows users to compile git) Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 12:37:42 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <46B2D547.6050406@trolltech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Marius Storm-Olsen , git@vger.kernel.org To: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Aug 03 13:38:19 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 1IGvU1-00055w-OG for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:38:18 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760663AbXHCLiP (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 07:38:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753401AbXHCLiP (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 07:38:15 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:57331 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1760635AbXHCLiO (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 07:38:14 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 03 Aug 2007 11:38:12 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp041) with SMTP; 03 Aug 2007 13:38:12 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18hnTtx03ohvSRiD6qJgOU+36g6gGurzqacPiPzBF ecyTbLdKkbWHd1 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 Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote: > On 8/3/07, Marius Storm-Olsen 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