From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Torgil Svensson" Subject: Re: Git on MSys (or how to make it easy for Windows users to compile git) Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 02:16:38 +0200 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: "Dmitry Kakurin" , "Marius Storm-Olsen" , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Johannes Schindelin" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Aug 04 02:16:45 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 1IH7K0-0003Aa-Du for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Sat, 04 Aug 2007 02:16:44 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763651AbXHDAQl (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 20:16:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1763642AbXHDAQl (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 20:16:41 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.177]:32569 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754065AbXHDAQk (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 20:16:40 -0400 Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id d32so1643386pye for ; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:16:39 -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=VVxHHnstykxGMo4hr/5g+kBxjV80UfsTa3eiw/myWCx+N9SIG2h3WyqPgTpL8CI/O5JRYdXOZS9ji9N2S/uc99GnDSXeTbiKalrcBeA8Y5rK6vwKpgA5L+8Z8i9v0JqbCeSg9Cw7MsmXwbcn7yPhaAV0ydg/dLob0VFXL4LWJt8= 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=m/Zi89k3jZzELN0NffemBO5Z+W1rnVuRSa1mRwiDoOE4Nxvu/VxrGuF1/e8+PhcChduH4Xnu1Unjeqp8ULuYeNZ2KfJeuZBDyCQO4t5svzGnLiZU58RGvsMkUcTPAYtLafIG9hRvA5kIqrR+qHmMJdZqZYI/Y8v7UV2SWQ/ZFt4= Received: by 10.65.251.17 with SMTP id d17mr6023446qbs.1186186598775; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 17:16:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.141.5 with HTTP; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 17:16:38 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, This is great news for win(-stuck)-users. I've tried "msysGit-0.2.exe", a few glitches 1. Unpacking in a folder that have space in it's path gave various errors of this type (here, msysGit is unpacked on the desktop C:\Documents and settings\.... ) : make[1]: C:/Documents: Command not found 2. rxvt-terminal had some freezes (echoed input but programs didn't output anything and didn't seem to respond to ctrl-c). Had it once during "make" and once during "ls". I't might be related to me resizing the terminal during command execution (=I didn't see it otherwise). 3. "gitk --all" said "Error reading commits: fatal: write failure on stdout: Invalid argument" on start - my other msys installation didn't. (I didn't do anything to make git dirty - i'm on master and gitk shows no uncommited changes) $ git --version git version mingw.v1.5.2.4.883.g3822-dirty 4. Mouse-wheel didn't work to scroll views in gitk => it works with minor installation effort! I've done both MSYS and Cygwin installs - I think this will lower the git barrier on Win significantly. Thanks & good work all involved! Best Regards, //Torgil On 8/3/07, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Dmitry Kakurin wrote: > > > > * replace rxvt by that stupid cmd window > > > Sneaky. > > > > This was a result of my customization that I have forgot to remove. > > In general cmd window is more familiar/convenient for Windows users. > > IMHO, our goal here should be "as native (Windows) as possible". Cygwin fills > > "as close to *nix as possible" niche. > > But in any case it's such a minor detail that I don't really care much. > > Actually, I finally saw the light and implemented your idea of the > repo.or.cz repository, containing a full copy of the darn beast. > > And there, differences like this one are much easier to spot. > > Besides, Marius convinced me already to include two versions. > > Ciao, > Dscho > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >