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Re: git cygwin package?

From
TCTim O Callaghan <timo@dspsrv.com>
Date
Dec 15, 2006, 10:22 UTC
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> Hi,
> Has anyone created a binary package for git on cygwin?

I started working on one a while ago, but it started to take up too much time. In the end i had to shelve it for a while. I was looking at it recently actually.

There are were few issues with trying to compile with a target path directory of / (root), as cygwin uses /bin /lib etc for all of its binaries. There were some problems with the import/export SVN tools as well IIRC.

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.

Also whoever builds them would also have to make sure they have the time maintain them or they get dropped.

Tim.
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  1. Tim O CallaghanDec 15, 2006
  2. Marco RoelandNov 3, 2006

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