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: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 16:30:57 +0200 Message-ID: References: <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 Mon Aug 06 16:31:08 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 1II3bv-00070p-5I for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:31:07 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762627AbXHFObB (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 10:31:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762191AbXHFObB (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 10:31:01 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.235]:30538 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762184AbXHFObA (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Aug 2007 10:31:00 -0400 Received: by nz-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so441594nze for ; Mon, 06 Aug 2007 07:30:58 -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=nX8iN+DH6zX1S/NmdxaNQtWnmE/jjfUX7ogx9Iu8r5o5QXJ4a/RQB7Fh25hSdtkgOYGT2W4IitjC7DNsFevnMJcAyPmt8Syel+HZVb/sy6ERBAUVW0LwGyrpVOWkpSEWPCVpGzV3klYUd6BOWc6YAyKg0GuexslHvOincipzryw= 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=BlNGqWv3J3dyoGgHgHCkpm8UL9Ip2NNmtucGymtY5S4+VDl0SGyVk6DzjHxJhC0tw6e/gV7xxshsr39xsgdm2VCjRUIBl6kV/B4RDT3KcQA/1lFMCIV9eMd44H/PSbEDchcmwQUTydbQxJ776jMYGQas4ir7I2e/adlMDD4ch9g= Received: by 10.65.74.9 with SMTP id b9mr8939180qbl.1186410657545; Mon, 06 Aug 2007 07:30:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.65.141.5 with HTTP; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 07:30:57 -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: On 8/6/07, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > NOTE: earlier installers included msys-rxvt.bat. I now _know_ for a fact > that a lot of things are strangely broken under Rxvt. For example, > creating an ssh key, of all things. > > > > 2. rxvt-terminal had some freezes > Those "freezes" were due to the fact that Rxvt incorrectly updates stderr > in a blocking way, or not at all (don't know which). There are more > things that do not work in Rxvt, and only after trying the same in cmd > (which I do not like for various reasons) I found out that rxvt.exe is at > fault. > > I would be glad if somebody managed to compile rxvt herself and fix all > those bugs (see http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/ for a short list of the > most pressing issues I found). As it is, I have enough work to do with > the rest of msysGit, and for the moment, I can at least work in cmd. Even > ssh push works. > It looks like rxvt is evil. I'll try to get other terminals working like that one Marius suggested. Although msys/bash makes up for most of the annoyances I dislike the cmd-terminal to the point that it's a real issue for me [deep settled in my neuron configuration]. > > > > 3. "gitk --all" said "Error reading commits: fatal: write failure on > > > > stdout: Invalid argument" > I have to wonder how you called it... From msys.bat, cd'ing into a valid > repository, I had no issues whatsoever. I called it from rxvt. I tried it now under cmd and it's all good. Did you try rxvt in this case? I notice that with your net installer (great job btw!), I get the msysgit.git reop under /.git and the mingw.git repo under /git/.git but there is no /git in /.gitignore. Is this overlap intended? Isn't this a case for submodules? //Torgil