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

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

Hi,

On Sat, 4 Aug 2007, Torgil Svensson wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This is great news for win(-stuck)-users. I've tried
> "msysGit-0.2.exe", a few glitches
> 
> 1. Unpacking in a folder that have space in it's path gave various
> errors of this type (here, msysGit is unpacked on the desktop
> C:\Documents and settings\.... ) : make[1]: C:/Documents: Command not
> found

Good point.  Did you fix it?  If so, where is the patch?  Or even better, 
what is your account on repo.or.cz so I can add it, and you can commit 
your fix yourself?

> 2. rxvt-terminal had some freezes (echoed input but programs didn't
> output anything and didn't seem to respond to ctrl-c). Had it once
> during "make" and once during "ls".  I't might be related to me
> resizing the terminal during command execution (=I didn't see it
> otherwise).

I did not experience those.  Could you research further?

> 3. "gitk --all" said "Error reading commits: fatal: write failure on
> stdout: Invalid argument" on start - my other msys installation
> didn't. (I didn't do anything to make git dirty - i'm on master and
> gitk shows no uncommited changes)
> $ git --version
> git version mingw.v1.5.2.4.883.g3822-dirty

I did not even bother testing gitk...  Any idea what is going wrong?

> 4. Mouse-wheel didn't work to scroll views in gitk

Again, no idea why.  Could you please investigate?

> => it works with minor installation effort!  I've done both MSYS and 
> Cygwin installs - I think this will lower the git barrier on Win 
> significantly. Thanks & good work all involved!

Thanks.  Your feedback is much appreciated.

Ciao,
Dscho