Re: Bootstraper for Git Dev Environment for Windows (Light version)

From: Dmitry Kakurin <dmitry.kakurin@gmail.com>
Date: Aug 5, 2007, 12:51 UTC
Message-ID: <26F4E92272F14115959CFA0C23809617@ntdev.corp.microsoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708051252130.14781@racer.site>

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>

> - How about calling your package msysGit-netInstall-<version>.exe?

No problem. Feel free to reupload it with a different name.

>   mingw.git as well...  Still, on dial-up, 40MB or 60MB makes a 
>   difference, no?

Sorry, I didn't have dialup for years so I don't take it into consideration. Still 60MB is not that dialup unfriendly.

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> - There is one big caveat with your bootstrapper: things have been known 
>  to break, and I think msysgit.git is no exception.  So I'd like to have 
>  a fallback in case things go awry, also to have something that is tested 
>  (for example, Mike tested msysGit-0.4.exe before releasing it).  Of 
>  course, we could solve that issue by branching off of the last release 
>  tag.

That, or better yet always maintain master branch in a working condition. Seriously.
If it (VERY rarely) breaks we'll just revert the offending checkin to bring it back in shape.
Where I come from, 'main' or 'master' should ALWAYS be functional.

> - AFAICT it is possible to make nicer installers with 7-Zip, and also

I have no preference here. I just use what I know (WinRAR). If you feel strongly about 7zip (which I can see you do for some reason :-) feel free to repackage it.

> - I wanted to hold off a little, until Hannes can apply the fix-up patch 
>  we need in mingw.git.  Because when he does, your bootstrap will run 
>  into problems...

Not sure why...

> It would 
> be nice to have insight in how you went about to identify what is needed?

Well, I've set path to a single directory (C:\GitMe\bin), copies over bash and git-clone and started running it until it worked. Which happened surprisingly fast.

- Dmitry