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Re: MinGW binary installer available

From
Han-Wen Nienhuys <hanwen@xs4all.nl>
Date
Feb 7, 2007, 15:14 UTC
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<45C9ECBE.6010705@xs4all.nl>
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<Pine.LNX.4.63.0702071559340.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Johannes Schindelin escreveu:
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> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Han-Wen Nienhuys wrote:
>>
>>> I don't actually have a windows copy, so it's basically untested.
>>> However, I did succeed in running rev-list in wine.
>> I played a little with it. IMHO it makes no sense to use it without a 
>> bash, and without less.
> 
> Side note: Since "ln <src> <dest>" in MinGW is really a copy, not a hard 
> link, this gets rather big (44M here).
> 
> Which makes me think if we should just disallow the "git-<builtin>" on 
> Windows, since sooner or later, Git will no longer be used from the 
> command line on Windows.
> 
> And another thing hit me there: Are you sure that all works well if you 
> change the install path from "C:\Program Files\Git" to something else?
> Without explicitely setting GIT_EXEC_PATH?

I have no idea. The installer just plonks the files into C:/P F/Git/ and adds that to $INSTALLDIR/usr/bin/ to $PATH

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  1. Han-Wen NienhuysFeb 7, 2007
  2. Johannes SchindelinFeb 7, 2007
  3. Johannes SchindelinFeb 7, 2007
  4. Han-Wen NienhuysFeb 7, 2007
  5. Johannes SixtFeb 8, 2007
  6. Han-Wen NienhuysFeb 7, 2007
  7. Johannes SchindelinFeb 7, 2007
  8. Han-Wen NienhuysFeb 7, 2007
  9. Johannes SchindelinFeb 7, 2007
  10. Han-Wen NienhuysFeb 7, 2007
  11. Johannes SchindelinFeb 7, 2007
  12. Han-Wen NienhuysFeb 7, 2007
  13. Han-Wen NienhuysFeb 7, 2007
  14. Johannes SixtFeb 8, 2007
  15. Johannes SixtFeb 8, 2007
  16. Han-Wen NienhuysFeb 8, 2007
  17. Robin RosenbergFeb 8, 2007
  18. Johannes SchindelinFeb 8, 2007
  19. Shawn O. PearceFeb 8, 2007
  20. Johannes SchindelinFeb 8, 2007
  21. Han-Wen NienhuysFeb 7, 2007
  22. Jan NieuwenhuizenFeb 7, 2007
  23. Han-Wen NienhuysFeb 7, 2007
  24. Johannes SchindelinFeb 7, 2007
  25. Han-Wen NienhuysFeb 7, 2007
  26. Johannes SchindelinFeb 7, 2007
  27. Jan NieuwenhuizenFeb 8, 2007
  28. Johannes SchindelinFeb 8, 2007

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