Re: Git on MSys (or how to make it easy for Windows users to compile git)

From: Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@trolltech.com>
Date: Aug 3, 2007, 13:08 UTC
Message-ID: <46B328EA.4030309@trolltech.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708031334530.14781@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin said the following on 03.08.2007 14:37:

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> On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Dmitry Kakurin wrote:
>> The changes that I've made:
>> * removed .git in /git directory to save space
>> * installed gdb
>> * applied my Vista fix
>> * made self-extracting .rar archive
> 
> * replace rxvt by that stupid cmd window
> Sneaky.
> Can you defend the choice?
> FWIW here are my arguments for rxvt:
> 
> 	- it behaves the same on all Windows versions
> 	- it has a scroll back (which you have to activate on cmd first)
> 	- it is resizable
> 	- it has sane copy&paste behaviour (which you have to activate on 
> 		cmd first, and then still have to hit the Return key after 
> 		having selected some text)

Normally, people would probably like to stay in their current environment/window. Let's say you're doing something in a cmd windows, then you want to go and compile git. If you run msys.bat, it will kill your current window, and show a rxvt window instead. That's kinda not nice really.

If you enable the QuickEdit in the 'CMD' window, you mark with mouse, the right-click to copy, then right-click again to paste. No need to move your hand and hit Enter/Return. (Many people don't know about the right-click to copy, but it's a much better work-flow)

You can do all the changes (like changing the scrollback size and edit mode) once, then store it, never to change it again.

-- 
.marius