From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" Subject: Re: Windows support Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:13:14 -0400 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: "Dmitry Kakurin" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Jul 25 14:13:28 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 1IDfk5-0002Lm-2l for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:13:25 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758852AbXGYMNR (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:13:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757785AbXGYMNQ (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:13:16 -0400 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.251]:15540 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752059AbXGYMNP (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:13:15 -0400 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d31so30777and for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 05:13:15 -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=XGcwT1X5YzR/svQf+03+1BCAGzhV4HmGcqZejZyRD1AhmGeBmHS227mivz3iW+XBd7TeMro9gForTEQ31psQUfOF9+4gLwQhqIv1xEa+ZwtPE3w9xdCSAB61KYvcjEDCnUNfgysYDVoiGhFFHYn0s6Z8OVjA62Vb3scD0y5aaiM= 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=b+Y1pQg4GIooVABXCAXAFjqNVWySgIKPif5LVqM4dD4+kD/2+7QkE6fIJ/nIO9rQAGtIyZufqJcR6DMprmXyR8pRFKcPd9MWZ4B1+TXlANeXNw0MAMHU9fUs7P/1Jw7kPkBN+5HfN7OJMQD8HL7XFIPu3L+6Tzjtrnzc6BdiRTE= Received: by 10.100.178.7 with SMTP id a7mr323008anf.1185365594836; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 05:13:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.127.17 with HTTP; Wed, 25 Jul 2007 05:13:11 -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 7/25/07, Dmitry Kakurin wrote: > How serious are you guys about Windows support? > I'm talking fully-functional port, not Cygwin. > I did a lot of searching for a new SCM to switch to (from Perforce). > And Git is my #1 choice. I love it's internals design and it's > expressive power. I've also tested git-p4 and it has worked like a > charm with my depot (with few tweaks that I may contribute later). > But I do all my work on Windows so I need Git-For-Windows-Done-Right :-). > The current mingw port is not there yet. What features is mingw port missing? > Transition to the new SCM must happen now, so basically I have 2 choices: > 1. Survive for a few months with the current CygWin port of Git > knowing that Windows support is coming FYI, I'm working on getting rid of msys requirement from mingw port. I can't tell you how long it would take though. Could be one month or two. -- Duy