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Possibility of a MinGW version?

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RMRob McDonald <robm@asdl.gatech.edu>
Date
Dec 24, 2005, 02:34 UTC
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1.0 is out the door, with support (to some degree or another) for Cygwin, BSD, MacOS X, Solaris, and who knows what else, good job all.

What possibility is there of getting git (& assorted tools) to run natively on Windows (sacrilege I know) using MinGW? What truly Unixy-only things does the code do? Unfortunately, Windows is a reality for many of us.

I'd like to begin experimenting using git to track all of my data files acting as a synchronization mechanism. Have all your files up-to-date everywhere, revision tracking, & redundancy too... Dedicated Linux repository at home, dual boot laptop on the road, Windows machine at work, etc...

Thoughts?  Suggestions?
            Rob
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