From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Dmitry Kakurin" Subject: Re: Git on MSys (or how to make it easy for Windows users to compile git) Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 02:58:16 -0700 Message-ID: References: <460B6BF8541C4D9B916F02A12E0576F5@ntdev.corp.microsoft.com> <46B2D4D9.4020103@trolltech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Johannes Schindelin" , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Marius Storm-Olsen" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Aug 03 11:58:23 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 1IGtvJ-0000dy-E9 for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 11:58:21 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758316AbXHCJ6S (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 05:58:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758238AbXHCJ6S (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 05:58:18 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.184]:62594 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758232AbXHCJ6R (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 05:58:17 -0400 Received: by rv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id k20so637668rvb for ; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 02:58:16 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Yeo+Z7iSy+sVL6QVDn1BPDQMJoLKav9fpp6xs8ifWWqdDsEB4dMfzKbo9WUiJXtrtOAj91EKKywx+qv8q5fTq8tJkZlP0V9YDFerQ8+m6Pg5B05Wx545WKQA+pMEUxaxo6E2ZUL3yqVYLDe1iP92ErNuPCEqQqnEwY6ztJFg+yo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=gN791lbymbTjn7a/teQiAFIDwTcV6iwHpEmJgE0DDN1iWinRNBp1sP8da78876/tKQuNJauISdFflhyeThNulgIBPJTfIbTNDJRlnL9f1oYSsQn8Br5qdyoNm2TQLTeKIXtGOGDeJzX0E3ud9DBDggUReupxKWS5HYMUDa/yDkk= Received: by 10.141.87.13 with SMTP id p13mr614307rvl.1186135096668; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 02:58:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.141.2.18 with HTTP; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 02:58:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <46B2D4D9.4020103@trolltech.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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 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 > > >