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:

> Mike Pape wrote:
> >>>> 3) When "Setting up git" the second time, it feels like the whole thing
> >>>> is hanging; have let it run for ~5min now without anything happening.
> >>>> Not sure what's going on here. It looks like git.exe was ran with any
> >>>> options, but that should not consume 100% CPU.. Hmm
> >>> Yep.  I did not test the initial phase, and there is a serious bug in
> >>> setup_git_directory_gently() in origin/devel.  I fixed that.
> >> Yup, work now.
> > 
> > Works for me as well now.  One catch is that at work, I'm behind a
> > firewall so git:// doesn't work for me.  I have a packaged version
> > that adds curl and expat, enables them in the build, and then falls
> > back to http:// if git:// fails in /etc/profile.  Is that something
> > you'd want up on code.google.com?
> 
> Ooo, I'd like your built curl and expat libs in a zip, pretty please! :-)
> 
> Then we can add it to the package. The more complete MinGW port, the
> better. Do you have anywhere you can put out such a zip, so I can get
> ahold of it? You can mail me privately, if you'd like.

I already installed curl, didn't I?

Ciao,
Dscho