Re: Importing Mozilla CVS into git

From: Shawn Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jun 2, 2006, 04:11 UTC
Message-ID: <20060602041107.GA5429@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <9e4733910606012100s7ace4721le6fbfbcaadfb6c43@mail.gmail.com>

Jon Smirl <jonsmirl@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 6/1/06, Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> wrote:
> >On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 23:47 -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
> >> On 6/1/06, Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> wrote:
> >> > Git runs fine on Windows these days; asking people to use reasonable
> >> > tools to contribute to the project doesn't seem crazy to me.
> >>
> >> WIndows, Mac, Solaris and Linux will cover most Firefox developers.
> >> Is git to go on those platforms? Is WIndows native or cygwin?
> >
> >I think the windows stuff may still be cygwin, but Mac and Solaris work
> >fine with the git, of course. It's just simple posix code, after all
> 
> It is going to have to be native Windows to move some of the
> developers over. They are true blue MS types that won't touch anything
> close to Unix so cygwin is out.

Then GIT on Windows might be out.

GIT today requires not only a decent UNIX shell but also, GNU tools, Perl and Python. Porting to Solaris has recently had some more effort put into it to remove some of the GNU tool dependencies but perhaps one of the most important features (git-merge-recursive) is a Python script.

I'm running GIT at work on a Windows/Cygwin installation which is really quite bare bones. I think I have about 15 Cygwin packages installed total and GIT is running fine in that environment. It can't send patches by email but the corporate firewalls wouldn't permit that anyway...

Perhaps you can tell the true blue MS types that Cygwin is a native Windows application. After all it uses the Win32 API. :-)

-- 
Shawn.