From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Switching from CVS to GIT Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 19:20:37 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <1192293466.17584.95.camel@homebase.localnet> <1192381040.4908.57.camel@homebase.localnet> <1773C6F0-87BE-4F3C-B68A-171E1F32E242@lrde.epita.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: git list , Eli Zaretskii , Make Windows To: Benoit SIGOURE X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sun Oct 14 20:21:12 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ih858-0002su-CZ for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Sun, 14 Oct 2007 20:20:54 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758643AbXJNSUn (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:20:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758598AbXJNSUn (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:20:43 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:32897 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1758417AbXJNSUm (ORCPT ); Sun, 14 Oct 2007 14:20:42 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 14 Oct 2007 18:20:40 -0000 Received: from wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de (EHLO openvpn-client) [132.187.25.13] by mail.gmx.net (mp001) with SMTP; 14 Oct 2007 20:20:40 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18abjcUN7gaRsjlmQqvS3j39sV+GHnVME8nIoGydq IdLhmfaayS2RmW X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <1773C6F0-87BE-4F3C-B68A-171E1F32E242@lrde.epita.fr> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Sun, 14 Oct 2007, Benoit SIGOURE wrote: > Context: GNU make seems to be willing to switch from CVS to ... > something else. > > On Oct 14, 2007, at 6:57 PM, Paul Smith wrote: > > > [...] the big thing no one else seems to have addressed much in other > > discussions I've seen is portability. It LOOKS like there are native > > ports of GIT to MINGW, but I have no idea how complete and usable they > > are. If someone who has a Windows system could look into that it > > would be a big help. There is msysGit. This project is nearing to its first beta, being self-hosted since mid-August IIRC. It is a port of Git to MinGW, using parts of MSys as long as we have dependencies on bash and perl. I have no doubt that we'll manage to finish version 0.3 of the installer this week, still not decided if it is still alpha or already beta. There are some issues with using msysGit, none of them really serious, but you better be ready to ask questions on this list or #git in case something crops up. msysGit is young. Having said that, IMHO msysGit is already quite usable, and should be pretty stable within a few weeks (if it is not already). Ciao, Dscho