Bootstraper for Git Dev Environment for Windows (Light version)
- From
- Dmitry Kakurin <dmitry.kakurin@gmail.com>
- Date
- Aug 5, 2007, 11:00 UTC
- Message-ID
- <2B8D8540264E4205BD1E4605770422BF@ntdev.corp.microsoft.com>
Please give it a try and tell me how it works for you: http://msysgit.googlecode.com/files/GitMe-1.exe (1.6 MB)
Here is the idea that this installer implements: Now that we have both msysGit and mingw git as .git repositories here is what we can do: * Create a small bootstrap download with git-clone and it's dependencies * After you download and run it, it will first clone msysGit repository * Then it will clone mingw.git repository * Start msys and run 'make install' for git * Clear leftovers of bootstrap
There are huge advantages IMHO: * the bootstrap download is very small (1.6MB) and will (almost) never change * msysGit will not contain git sources at all (this causes very inconvenient overlap between 2 repositories right now) * after initial setup process user will be left with 2 fully-functioning repositories (msysGit and git), so staying up to date with both mingw.git and msys dev/build environment will be trivial: just use git pull for both.
If we want to stick with this installer here is what we need to do: * Remove /git directory from msysGit.git * Bring mingw.git up to date so we can remove patching step from installer
If you want to change it/see how it works internally do the following: * start the GitMe.exe * answer yes to popup dialog * cmd window will open and ask you for installation directory, don't enter anything, just leave this window alone
At this point all installer files will be unpacked in %temp%\RarSFX0\GitMe. Setup.cmd is the one to look at/tweak.
To repack just use any compressor that can create SFX archives that can also start a file execution. I've used WinRAR. But the whole idea is that this bootstrap download should require very little/no tweaking. All changes should happen in msysgit.git and mingw.git.
- Dmitry