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From: "Peter Harris" <git@peter.is-a-geek.org>
Subject: Re: What's the status of MinGW port.
Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 14:30:52 -0400
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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