From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: git on Cygwin: Not a valid object name HEAD Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 18:20:02 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <20070807143616.GO9527@spearce.org> <20070807145825.GO21692@lavos.net> <66DD7425-6073-4CA8-BF01-BF07213A4804@zib.de> <30e4a070708071042g5623cb7ak724a8b8e588bd1da@mail.gmail.com> <07BB2580-4406-496F-8ACE-F6A03D1687BE@zib.de> <30e4a070708080650j5de7ee92p4acd7e82de7d9dff@mail.gmail.com> <30e4a070708080941j49b3d58cxc39bbe65f2fee9d5@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Steffen Prohaska , Junio C Hamano , Linus Torvalds , Git Mailing List , "Shawn O. Pearce" , Sebastian Schuberth To: Mark Levedahl X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Aug 08 19:23:23 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 1IIpFh-0008UY-OL for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:23:22 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934938AbXHHRUs (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 13:20:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965095AbXHHRUp (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 13:20:45 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:43953 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S965082AbXHHRUn (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Aug 2007 13:20:43 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 08 Aug 2007 17:20:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp029) with SMTP; 08 Aug 2007 19:20:42 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/m12Fc0cHm/0s4DtASL1/MeMOtVaLjcNlFbQBp4M xKatpvk9QUiH+n X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <30e4a070708080941j49b3d58cxc39bbe65f2fee9d5@mail.gmail.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 Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Mark Levedahl wrote: > On 8/8/07, Steffen Prohaska wrote: > > > > The bottom line for me is, git does not yet support Windows in a > > usable way for the organizations that I need to convince. > > > > Steffen > > > > Have you considered jumping in to help on the msys git port Johannes > Schindelin is working? He has very generously offered to do > essentially everything except find bugs, the latter because he does > not actually use Windows so can't, and is clearly putting a great deal > of effort into this. A stable and complete Windows port may be much > closer than you think. To be fair, we are already a team of five working on it. The 3rd generation of the net installer works as flawlessly as the first, but msysgit.git is a superproject now, containing the complete build environment you need, and has git/mingw/4msysgit.git as a submodule (yes, that is a fork of a fork; they work now on repo.or.cz). Please find it on http://msysgit.googlecode.com/ (It's a meager 1.4 MB, so the whole rest is git-cloned natively!) It already passes all tests, is able to start gitk and git-gui, and more is to come! And no, I did not agree to do _everything_. I agreed to do things _when I get something in return_. For example, we have a functional script sitting in msysgit.git which builds a complete WinGit installer (WinGit being the code name for "Git on MSys without the whole build environment"). It is incomplete in only a few issues: - it does not install anything in the start menu - it does not install any short cut on the Desktop - it does not install anything in the Quick Launch bar - it does not include a nice WelcomeToGit.html, to be launched after a successful install - it does not contain a nice way to start git-gui (you have to start it by hand from the command line inside bash) - etc. So go for it, everybody, or alternatively do not even bother to whine. Ciao, Dscho P.S.: I'll be not really available for a few days, starting from tomorrow, so do use the mailing list to keep in touch with others working on msysgit or 4msysgit, and do use the mob branch (you can bug the project members listed on the homepage to cherry-pick, sign off and push if need be).