From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Seymour Subject: Re: Are the patches used to build git on cygwin available in a git repo somewhere? Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:58:18 +1200 Message-ID: References: <2cfc40321003300916o305e4c15x7850549beafc26c0@mail.gmail.com> <20100331025626.GA13501@progeny.tock> <20100331025856.GB13501@progeny.tock> <4BB336C1.4000504@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Jonathan Nieder , Git Mailing List , Ramsay Allan Jones , Dmitry Potapov To: Eric Blake X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Mar 31 13:58:26 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NwwYz-0006St-SP for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 13:58:26 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932188Ab0CaL6U convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Mar 2010 07:58:20 -0400 Received: from mail-pw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.160.46]:52000 "EHLO mail-pw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757097Ab0CaL6T convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Mar 2010 07:58:19 -0400 Received: by pwi5 with SMTP id 5so4162pwi.19 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:58:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:received:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=tDwis5wCoyyS1/T5ufOlD2gQL6Ed0/9LDmuKukxQq/M=; b=avQdDtWV73FHqanPLtKEKPAMISDFAMQotS8HWNoSqMyPjRFHp5jtrhqHJqI1uuc++1 vve6AaHSU4QnHKgaLB2pV6xN0da+vQSUABdghiaKB0OSccnTb7GbMtagH/OvKOVJBMHb p8qNbneZ5CO/bjRqawlKw6LWXn01g3IC+eeME= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Eq6BcrMb/mmqyAMZLa1IJTzqgQgU84fjOSAwSfRFcX7KmWTsrX5JidfYt1krAEMkz1 74AEXMKgSsaCLPHLUtOKHdXPJErX0xt4JTanQhwXvm1q3j35/F8nzNwb/nd9VgYk0EGN QsK/iad+ZkH2GTX+gWpT9YMpru5wW+oG2HlZ8= Received: by 10.114.13.5 with HTTP; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:58:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4BB336C1.4000504@redhat.com> Received: by 10.115.38.31 with SMTP id q31mr7577083waj.113.1270036698728; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 04:58:18 -0700 (PDT) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > According to Jon Seymour on 3/31/2010 1:55 AM: >> What I was looking for was a git repo that contains a branch with th= e >> patches that the cygwin folks mutate the official git release with. >> Such a repo would be quite useful because people could, in theory, u= se >> these to produce their own cygwin git builds at arbitrary commits >> instead of having to wait for cygwin to catch up. >> >> Admittedly, it is not a big deal to build such a branch using the >> patch from the cygwin package source, but I was just wondering wheth= er >> there was a well-known repo that contained the patches already. > > Nope - the patchset that I apply when building the cygwin port is so = small > that so far I have just maintained it manually, rather than publishin= g a > git repo. =C2=A0But if you want me to make it more public, I can cert= ainly look > into doing that. =C2=A0And yes, now that 1.7.x is out for some time n= ow, I > should probably advance the cygwin port beyond 1.6.6.1. > As you say, it's probably not worth the effort, but if you ever do decide to set such a thing up, do let me know. jon. > -- > Eric Blake =C2=A0 eblake@redhat.com =C2=A0 =C2=A0+1-801-349-2682 > Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org > >