Re: Git for Windows 1.6.2.1-preview20090322

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Mar 23, 2009, 02:53 UTC
Message-ID: <20090323025358.GA19717@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0903230015020.10279@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 12:25:57AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> > A few people have asked about filter-branch on Windows recently;
> 
> I am not aware of any.  But then, I think nobody mentioned it on the 
> msysgit list (which would be the correct place), and I am likely to have 
> missed it if it was sent elsewhere.

They were less feature request and more mentioned in the middle of other discussions. I am thinking specifically of:

  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/112253/focus=112439
  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/111722/focus=112103

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> Actually, not only Hannes' version runs the test t7003 okay, but also 
> 4msysgit's version.
> 
> But let's reduce the differences between git.git and 4msysgit.git further 
> first.

OK. I just wanted to make you aware of the existing threads and Hannes' message, since as you mentioned they _weren't_ on the msysgit list.

-Peff