From: Marco Roeland <marco.roeland@xs4all.nl>
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2006 14:50:57 GMT
Subject: Re: git cygwin package?
Message-ID: <20061103145057.GB31349@fiberbit.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <2495.145.36.45.123.1162557826.squirrel@www.dspsrv.com>

On Friday November 3rd 2006 at 12:43 Tim O Callaghan wrote:

> Its not just git that needs to be added to cygwin, Asciidoc and a few other tools (i have a list
> somewhere) would also need to be packaged for cygwin too, because the package system re-builds
> their binaries from source for distribution.

Debian has split git into different packages to avoid unnessary
dependencies if you don't need them. Might be a good idea for Cygwin.

A 'git-core' package for Cygwin would already be of great use. The
documentation can then for example be fetched from the respective
documentation branches in the git repository.
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