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, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote:

> > > Completely forgot: we might want to do something like this at the end of
> > > /etc/profile:
> > > 
> > > 	test ! -d /git || {
> > > 		mv /git $HOME/ &&
> > > 		cd $HOME/git &&
> > > 		make install &&
> > > 		git config remote.origin.url \
> > > 			git://repo.or.cz/git/mingw.git
> > > 		git config remote.origin.fetch \
> > > 			'+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*'
> > > 		git config remote.mob.url \
> > > 			repo.or.cz:/srv/git/git/mingw.git
> > > 		git config remote.mob.fetch \
> > > 			+refs/remote/mob:refs/remotes/origin/mob
> > > 		git config remote.mob.push \
> > > 			master:mob
> > > 		git fetch
> > > 		git reset 51785010a4d3e7f6c3
> > > 	}
> > > 
> > > Please test that, and include it if it works.
> 
> Hmmm, I have trouble 'parsing' this.
> You meant
>     test ! -d $HOME/git ||
> right?
> 
> But, given that he removed the initial git sources, the script won't work. He
> left the git executables to be able to check a new Git out, if I understand
> correctly.

I ended up doing it differently.  I test for $HOME/bin/git.exe, and if it 
does not exist, the whole compiling && installing && fetching is done.

Actually, I found out by debugging why it did not work as intended that 
commit 5178501 was a commit _I_ made, from experimental patches Hannes 
sent to the list.

I updated it to origin/devel + patches.

Hopefully these patches will be cleaned up, and submitted to Hannes (hint, 
hint).

Ciao,
Dscho