{"thread":{"id":"8929","subject":"[mingw port] Problem starting git subcommands","startedAt":"2007-07-08T18:26:49Z","lastAt":"2007-07-09T08:49:15Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Henning Rogge","Johannes Sixt"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"46774","messageId":"87eacd830707081126x69b2edb3o9fd89733ff2258f4@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"8929","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"[mingw port] Problem starting git subcommands","fromName":"Henning Rogge","fromEmail":"hrogge@gmx.net","sentAt":"2007-07-08T18:26:49Z","receivedAt":"2007-07-08T18:26:49Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"hrogge@gmx.net","avatar":null},"body":"I have experimented with GIT on my linux system successfully but one\nof my projects has to be done on Windows (neither VMware Workstation\nnor Wine can help at the moment) so I got a copy of the mingw port of\nGIT (http://lilypond.org/git/binaries/mingw/git-1.5.2.1-1.mingw.exe).\n\nInstallation succeeded without a single error but when I tried to run\na few GIT commands I noticed a \"bug\":\n\nthe git.exe command does not recognize any scripted subcommand\n(git-clone in my case) !\n> C:\\Programme\\Git>git clone\n> git: 'clone' is not a git-command\n\nDo I need another software package ? I tried to install the Mingw\npackage itself, but it did not help at all.\n"},{"id":"46844","messageId":"4691F68B.832047D1@eudaptics.com","threadId":"8929","inReplyTo":"87eacd830707081126x69b2edb3o9fd89733ff2258f4@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: [mingw port] Problem starting git subcommands","fromName":"Johannes Sixt","fromEmail":"j.sixt@eudaptics.com","sentAt":"2007-07-09T08:49:15Z","receivedAt":"2007-07-09T08:49:15Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"j6t@kdbg.org","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/14810926?v=4"},"body":"Henning Rogge wrote:\n> \n> I have experimented with GIT on my linux system successfully but one\n> of my projects has to be done on Windows (neither VMware Workstation\n> nor Wine can help at the moment) so I got a copy of the mingw port of\n> GIT (http://lilypond.org/git/binaries/mingw/git-1.5.2.1-1.mingw.exe).\n> \n> Installation succeeded without a single error but when I tried to run\n> a few GIT commands I noticed a \"bug\":\n> \n> the git.exe command does not recognize any scripted subcommand\n> (git-clone in my case) !\n> > C:\\Programme\\Git>git clone\n> > git: 'clone' is not a git-command\n> \n> Do I need another software package ? I tried to install the Mingw\n> package itself, but it did not help at all.\n\nYes, you need a shell and some Posix tools. Install MSYS, e.g.\n\n   MSYS-1.0.11-2004.04.30-1.exe\n\nYou will also want a ssh and perl, e.g. from\n\n   msysDTK-1.0.1.exe\n\nand MinGW's tcl/tk from\n\n   tcltk-8.4.1-1.exe\n\nAlso, git-am seems to require bash 3.1, e.g. from\n\n   bash-3.1-MSYS-1.0.11-snapshot.tar.bz2\n\n-- Hannes\n"}]}