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Re: What's the status of MinGW port.

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TTait <git.git@t41t.com>
Date
Sep 8, 2008, 18:18 UTC
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>>>>      Is there any plan to create a native version of GIT on MS Windows?
>>>There are no plans anymore to create such a thing.
>>
>>Out of curiosity, any particular reason why not?
>
> He mentioned it in the very next sentence: It already exists.
>
> I guess this is beyond your attention span...
The personal attack was unnecessary, and no, I'm not inattentive, thank you.

My understanding is that MinGW is a POSIX emulation layer; the underlying code is still using POSIX functions like fork and exec that aren't native to Windows. When I said "native" I meant "not POSIX" -- i.e. using the Windows API directly instead of through some kind of munging layer.

So I'll ask again, is there any particular reason why a _native_ Windows Git hasn't been attempted (or was abandoned, or whatever)?

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  2. Johannes SixtSep 8, 2008
  3. TaitSep 8, 2008
  4. Andreas EricssonSep 8, 2008
  5. TaitSep 8, 2008
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