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Re: Anyone running GIT on native Windows

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AGAaron Gray <angray@beeb.net>
Date
May 12, 2007, 02:23 UTC
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> Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
>> http://lilypond.org/git/binaries/mingw/git-1.5.1-1.mingw.exe
>
> This resulted in a mostly working git toolset after I've done this in
> addition to installing it:
>
> - Installed MSYS (of course ;)
> - Install libiconv-2.dll, which can be found in
> diffutils-2.8.7-1-dep.zip from
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=2435 (available in
> Section Snapshot->MSYS) (rename libiconv2.dll to libiconv-2.dll)
> - Set the path to MSYS and Git manually.

This direct link is better. The above link does not take you to the correct place.

http://sourceforge.net/project/downloading.php?group_id=23617&use_mirror=kent&filename=diffutils-2.8.7-1-dep.zip&19135304
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> For extra bonus points, I should also have installed
> bash-3.1-MSYS-1.0.11-snapshot.tar.bz2 (without which 'git am' fails) and
> msysDTK-1.0.1.exe for ssh and perl, but I haven't.
>
> gitk and git-gui are untested; they need tcltk-8.4.1-1.exe, of course.
Got GIT :)
Cheers,
Aaron
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  1. Aaron GrayMay 6, 2007
  2. Junio C HamanoMay 6, 2007
  3. Aaron GrayMay 6, 2007
  4. Johannes SixtMay 7, 2007
  5. Marco CostalbaMay 7, 2007
  6. Johannes SixtMay 7, 2007
  7. A.S. BradburyMay 7, 2007
  8. Aaron GrayMay 7, 2007
  9. Johannes SchindelinMay 7, 2007
  10. Thomas GlanzmannMay 7, 2007
  11. Aaron GrayMay 7, 2007
  12. Johannes SchindelinMay 7, 2007
  13. Asger Ottar AlstrupMay 8, 2007
  14. Han-Wen NienhuysMay 9, 2007
  15. Johannes SixtMay 9, 2007
  16. Han-Wen NienhuysMay 11, 2007
  17. Johannes SixtMay 11, 2007
  18. Han-Wen NienhuysMay 11, 2007
  19. Johannes SixtMay 11, 2007
  20. Han-Wen NienhuysMay 11, 2007
  21. Aaron GrayMay 12, 2007
  22. Jan HudecMay 9, 2007
  23. Han-Wen NienhuysMay 9, 2007

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