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Re: Native Windows implementation of GIT ?

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RDReece Dunn <msclrhd@googlemail.com>
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2009/6/12 Aaron Gray <aaronngray.lists@googlemail.com>:
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> Is there going to be a native Windows implementation of GIT ?
>
> i.e. not MSYS or Cygwin based.
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> Many thanks in advance,

Cygwin is an adapter layer that maps posix calls to the Windows Win32 API, so is not a native implementation.

MSYS uses the MinGW (gcc) compiler uses the native Windows Win32 API, so the MSYS version *is* native.

Unless by native you mean using Visual Studio?
- Reece
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