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 14:18:12 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <460B6BF8541C4D9B916F02A12E0576F5@ntdev.corp.microsoft.com> <46B2D4D9.4020103@trolltech.com> <46B328EA.4030309@trolltech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Dmitry Kakurin , git@vger.kernel.org To: Marius Storm-Olsen X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Aug 03 15:18:50 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 1IGx3J-0007zr-Qk for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 15:18:50 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759761AbXHCNSp (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 09:18:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759042AbXHCNSo (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 09:18:44 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:36690 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1757872AbXHCNSn (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 09:18:43 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 03 Aug 2007 13:18:41 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp056) with SMTP; 03 Aug 2007 15:18:41 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19WWoklhK1WzmRiwsxDQEW1LaUbkf0yKNskk1ooCZ ilxnGO91cThYq7 X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <46B328EA.4030309@trolltech.com> 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, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote: > Johannes Schindelin said the following on 03.08.2007 14:37: > > On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Dmitry Kakurin wrote: > > > The changes that I've made: > > > * removed .git in /git directory to save space > > > * installed gdb > > > * applied my Vista fix > > > * made self-extracting .rar archive > > > > * replace rxvt by that stupid cmd window > > Sneaky. > > Can you defend the choice? > > FWIW here are my arguments for rxvt: > > > > - it behaves the same on all Windows versions > > - it has a scroll back (which you have to activate on cmd first) > > - it is resizable > > - it has sane copy&paste behaviour (which you have to activate on > > cmd first, and then still have to hit the Return key after having > > selected some text) > > Normally, people would probably like to stay in their current > environment/window. Let's say you're doing something in a cmd windows, then > you want to go and compile git. If you run msys.bat, it will kill your current > window, and show a rxvt window instead. That's kinda not nice really. > > If you enable the QuickEdit in the 'CMD' window, you mark with mouse, the > right-click to copy, then right-click again to paste. No need to move your > hand and hit Enter/Return. (Many people don't know about the right-click to > copy, but it's a much better work-flow) > > You can do all the changes (like changing the scrollback size and edit mode) > once, then store it, never to change it again. Thanks for that good point (staying in your window). Okay, tell you what: I'll let msys.bat start a cmd, and msys-rxvt.bat start an rxvt. Deal? Ciao, Dscho