From: "Peter Harris" <git@peter.is-a-geek.org>
To: Tait <git.git@t41t.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What's the status of MinGW port.
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 14:30:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eaa105840809081130t64e45fc5kc54c79b7d427f55e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080908181848.GI27478@ece.pdx.edu>
On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Tait wrote:
> My understanding is that MinGW is a POSIX emulation layer; the underlying
> code is still using POSIX functions like fork and exec that aren't native
> to Windows.
Your understanding is flawed. You're probably thinking of MSYS or
CYGWIN. MinGW is a native Win32 port of gcc.
> So I'll ask again, is there any particular reason why a _native_ Windows
> Git hasn't been attempted (or was abandoned, or whatever)?
MinGW-git is a native Windows application.
Some of the utilities bundled with "msysgit" (eg. bash, rxvt, perl,
and therefore git-svn) use the MSYS POSIX emulation layer, but the git
core is native.
Peter Harris
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-08 18:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2008-09-08 4:34 ` What's the status of MinGW port Kevin Yu
2008-09-08 7:08 ` Johannes Sixt
2008-09-08 11:03 ` Tait
2008-09-08 11:24 ` Andreas Ericsson
2008-09-08 18:18 ` Tait
2008-09-08 18:30 ` Peter Harris [this message]
2008-09-08 8:22 dhruva
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