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From: Steven Noonan <steven@uplinklabs.net>
To: John Dlugosz <JDlugosz@tradestation.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Windows release
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 08:42:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f488382f0902030842x6e7466ffm4668abde23e67bea@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <450196A1AAAE4B42A00A8B27A59278E70977F81A@EXCHANGE.trad.tradestation.com>

On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 8:21 AM, John Dlugosz <JDlugosz@tradestation.com> wrote:
> I want to update my git installation to the latest stable version, and
> I'm running Windows.  In your download page
> <http://git-scm.com/download> the link next to Cygwin is
> <http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe> which would seem to be the installer
> for Cygwin itself, not for the Cygwin version of the git executables.
>
> Am I missing something here?
>
> --John

Cygwin doesn't have a binary package system (i.e. rpm, deb, etc), so
you either have to run the Cygwin installer to get the latest one they
support or compile it yourself via Cygwin.

- Steven

  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-03 16:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-03 16:21 Windows release John Dlugosz
2009-02-03 16:42 ` Steven Noonan [this message]
2009-02-03 16:51   ` Geoffrey Lee

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