Re: MinGW port usable

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Jan 29, 2007, 23:24 UTC
Message-ID: <20070129232425.GB31372@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <46d6db660701291511v700bfcf7l4851dd6be4fc6e03@mail.gmail.com>

Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com> wrote:

> my last compilation is less than 8 hours old, and I do not have cygwin
> installed. What is it you want to test actually ?

Try creating a desktop icon (Repository->Create Desktop Icon) and start git-gui from the resulting .bat file. It *should* come up right on MinGW, but I'm only guessing here.

The other one that I'm curious about is if fetch/push/merge work. merge requires git-merge right now, which is a shell script. fetch is the same, but push is pure C so it should work. But I don't think the Tcl environment will make it into the child, which means things like SSH_AUTH_SOCK don't get used.

But I really should just install the git-mingw port on one of
my windows systems and play with it.  If its faster than Cygwin
then it's worthwhile.

> git-gui and gitk have been working for a bit more than a week, if I
> recall well. I'd like to see git-blame latest patch work with git-gui.

The blame feature is in git-gui (went in last night). It requires the --incremental patches from Linus&Junio, which are now in git.git master. It also needs a big display, as the interface is horrid. :)

-- 
Shawn.