From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" Subject: Re: Git on MSys (or how to make it easy for Windows users to compile git) Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2007 07:17:15 -0400 Message-ID: References: <46B2D547.6050406@trolltech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Johannes Schindelin" , git@vger.kernel.org To: "Marius Storm-Olsen" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Aug 03 13:17:28 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 1IGv9q-0007KD-6h for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 13:17:26 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761530AbXHCLRT (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 07:17:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1761509AbXHCLRT (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 07:17:19 -0400 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.247]:3536 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760794AbXHCLRS (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Aug 2007 07:17:18 -0400 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d31so153185and for ; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 04:17:16 -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=AW+vB59UrxWT0Ds5iiy0FR38qzNa9x7/bUTYDG/wE/1GVPL5nVYZ0PMflUgI+owHdWm7UVXSIT/EtfA3TZ6ZjG13q09DwctaqBK81rgO9sM9QE/R3YWBYBDgUKWyuLhdT7eG7bZhLLH4LVMGrA3nNP4vgOXMvP5gmJUxbOwJxUA= 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=tXJMc8VjHRLvOU0P23G+tsI/WBfeE4pTk7wdIkAoA3on2UbzF95PjtS4Sp9Il4oOOVAL9CFg/mmf0r+5+GEMtYonRcZIKpLJa/Jp7XR6vNSKi1Nl0SaYJE294K+lZETGA5Qn08F8KoA5GhqNkAWvpGtiHuux8xAvVnztkIJwvPs= Received: by 10.100.9.19 with SMTP id 19mr1661838ani.1186139836031; Fri, 03 Aug 2007 04:17:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.198.17 with HTTP; Fri, 3 Aug 2007 04:17:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <46B2D547.6050406@trolltech.com> Content-Disposition: inline Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 8/3/07, Marius Storm-Olsen 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