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

["Dmitry Kakurin" <dmitry.kakurin@gmail.com>]

Fair enough.
Johannes, please add me as a user to this Google project and I'll
upload the files.
The changes that I've made:
* removed .git in /git directory to save space
* installed gdb
* applied my Vista fix
* made self-extracting .rar archive

Tatal size is 19+4 MB.

- Dmitry

On 8/3/07, Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com> wrote:
> Dmitry Kakurin said the following on 03.08.2007 08:56:
> > Great job! Because finding and installing MSys, MinGW and dependencies was not trivial at all.
> > I have 2 suggestions for this package:
> > 1. Remove git repository from it. It will make a download much smaller (~20MB smaller) and include the minimum git functionality to
> > pull mingw git from the server (may be even automatically on first startup).
> > 2. Add gdb. Not much could be done without it.
> >
> > With this package (+gdb) it took me about an hour to figure out why git is broken on Vista (this includes learning how to use gdb
> > :-). So you should expect much higher level of participation on the Windows side.
> >
> > P.S. If package becomes sufficiently small for a single file, try to remove 7zip dependency (use WinZip instead). The easier the
> > installation the better.
>
> Heh, why don't you try to do this yourself? Johannes as kind enough to
> go out of his way to actually do all that he has already.
> Seems like you feel strongly for it, so it shouldn't be too much
> effort for you. If you provide Johannes with a link to a package of
> which you speak, I'm sure he'll happily upload it to the google
> project page.
>
> --
> .marius
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