From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: Switching from CVS to GIT Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:19:51 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <20071014221446.GC2776@steel.home> <4712B616.165BBF8D@dessent.net> <20071015175606.GE2966@steel.home> <4713B367.52CEC7E2@dessent.net> <4713BA89.633B86F2@dessent.net> <20071015194214.GC15541@steel.home> <4713C81F.A75FEFC2@dessent.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Alex Riesen , Eli Zaretskii , ae@op5.se, tsuna@lrde.epita.fr To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Oct 15 23:12:25 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 1IhWQC-0007zt-Hp for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:20:17 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757627AbXJOUUD (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:20:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S934117AbXJOUUD (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:20:03 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:51834 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1757627AbXJOUUA (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Oct 2007 16:20:00 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 15 Oct 2007 20:19:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO [138.251.11.74]) [138.251.11.74] by mail.gmx.net (mp029) with SMTP; 15 Oct 2007 22:19:56 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18ixQZPO0sixadYOJGVfNsbqRwfcwSfcU1cL+Y0y6 y9rIV6X0ofcJPs X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <4713C81F.A75FEFC2@dessent.net> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, On Mon, 15 Oct 2007, Brian Dessent wrote: > Well, instead of using an MSYS build of Perl there's always ActiveState > Perl. No, but thanks no. You haven't been around long enough on this list to count the issues, but it is known that ActiveState Perl is close to Malbolge. > I think you may be stuck on the shell though -- I don't know of any > ports of bash that aren't MSYS or Cygwin based. However I do think > there's a native port of zsh out there by the GnuWin32 project, which > when renamed as just "/bin/sh" might be suitable, but only if these > scripts don't use bash-isms. I have not tried this zsh myself and > speed/compatibility wise I'm not sure it's up to snuff. There is a port of BusyBox' dash, which is nearing completion. Once Nguyen says it is ready enough, we will try to integrate it into msysGit. Ciao, Dscho