MinGW port (was: Re: [ANNOUNCE] qgit4 aka qgit ported to Windows)

From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@eudaptics.com>
Date: Jan 11, 2007, 09:35 UTC
Message-ID: <45A604ED.5EF73A1E@eudaptics.com>
In-Reply-To: <46a038f90701101517s1d5e818eq2fba220d17a6aa03@mail.gmail.com>

Martin Langhoff wrote:

> How much does qgit4 depend on using commandline git? IOWs, how far
> from not needing cygwin+git, and shipping a git+qgit compiled against
> the MinGW that QT4 has?

FWIW, I'm slowly working on a MinGW port of git, based on Dscho's initial work.

Currently, the tool set passes about 60-70% of the tests.

This works: The tools that you commonly need to work on a local repo, except merges ([*]): commit, rebase, reset, log, diff and their plumbing.

This does not work: pull, fetch, clone; mostly due to fork() difficulties in their plumbing (fetch-pack, send-pack, etc.)

[*] because shell scripts like merge-one-file can't be invoked from an exe like merge-index, yet. Fortunately this looks like the easiest part to solve.

-- Hannes