From: Konstantin Khomoutov <flatworm@users.sourceforge.net>
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 13:48:08 GMT
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] WinGit - native x86/x64 Git for Windows
Message-ID: <20140403174808.9ae91c3bd477d276e3e80d68@domain007.com>
In-Reply-To: <20140403131850.GA24449@seldon>

On Thu, 3 Apr 2014 17:18:50 +0400
marat@slonopotamus.org wrote:

> I'm proud to announce WinGit:
> an attempt to bring Git powers to 64-bit Windows.
[...]
> Relationship with msysgit
> =========================
> 
> Unlike msysgit, WinGit is a pure-Windows binary build with MSVC.
> 
> Like msysgit, WinGit also uses msys environment (sh/perl/etc) both
> during build-time and runtime.
> 
> WinGit adds a few patches to Git itself on top of msysgit ones.
> Patches are required due to insufficient testing of MSVC builds
> (caused by total absence of any MSVC-built Git distributions).
> 
> All WinGit patches are sent upstream, just didn't get to master yet.

What is the state of Unicode support in WinGit?