From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Steven Noonan Subject: Re: Windows release Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 08:42:11 -0800 Message-ID: References: <450196A1AAAE4B42A00A8B27A59278E70977F81A@EXCHANGE.trad.tradestation.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: John Dlugosz X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Feb 03 17:43:55 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LUONA-0002Rf-Bs for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:43:40 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752430AbZBCQmN (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Feb 2009 11:42:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752244AbZBCQmN (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Feb 2009 11:42:13 -0500 Received: from mail-qy0-f11.google.com ([209.85.221.11]:61483 "EHLO mail-qy0-f11.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752042AbZBCQmM (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Feb 2009 11:42:12 -0500 Received: by qyk4 with SMTP id 4so2710038qyk.13 for ; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:42:11 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.215.100.13 with SMTP id c13mr8588258qam.377.1233679331553; Tue, 03 Feb 2009 08:42:11 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <450196A1AAAE4B42A00A8B27A59278E70977F81A@EXCHANGE.trad.tradestation.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 8:21 AM, John Dlugosz wrote: > I want to update my git installation to the latest stable version, and > I'm running Windows. In your download page > the link next to Cygwin is > 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