Re: Git on MSys (or how to make it easy for Windows users to compile git)

["Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>]

On 8/3/07, Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com> wrote:
> > I finally broke down, waiting for the sourceforge project to get
> > granted. In the meantime, I registered a project at
> >
> > http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/
> >
> > (WARNING: temporary only!)
> >
> > Would you believe that Google code has a restriction to 20MB per
> > file, and 100MB in total, and you cannot remove files?  The same
> > Google that gives you 1TB mail space and counting?  Yes, it is
> > ludicrous.
> >
> > Anyway, you can get a complete Development environment in 3 files
> > (because one would be too large), and... oh well, just read what is
> > written on the website if you're really interested.
>
> Great effort Johannes!
> The package work perfectly on XP.
> I'm trying to get it to work under Wine, but it (Wine) is not playing
> nice with me at the moment. (The whole system barfs of "Access Denied"
> and other things. Grrr)

Even if it installs ok under Wine, git may not work properly because a
bug in dup2() not duplicating to 0-2 and some others that I think only
affect tests. So get XP if you can or prepare to fix Wine along the
way.

-- 
Duy