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: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 01:26:01 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <460B6BF8541C4D9B916F02A12E0576F5@ntdev.corp.microsoft.com> <46B2D4D9.4020103@trolltech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Dmitry Kakurin , Marius Storm-Olsen , git@vger.kernel.org To: Torgil Svensson X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Aug 04 02:26:36 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 1IH7TX-0004yU-Le for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 04 Aug 2007 02:26:36 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763775AbXHDA0d (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 20:26:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763754AbXHDA0d (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 20:26:33 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:32930 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1763744AbXHDA0c (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 20:26:32 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 04 Aug 2007 00:26:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp049) with SMTP; 04 Aug 2007 02:26:30 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+ooptijQOoLtHwTN8dIQrIb+WJIRloY4Ruiof0cL 10VvSbXurxwdSC 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 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