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, 17:53 UTC
Message-ID: <46B36B7F.8010008@trolltech.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708031649480.14781@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

> On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Marius Storm-Olsen wrote:
>> 1) msys.bat still kills the previous window
>> (start <cmd> opens a new CMD window, and exit kills the current one)
> Done.

Works nicely now.

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>> 2) If $HOME is set to the normal home directory of the user (which I
>> have, but I doubt it's common)
>>    then you'll have problems with spaces in path, so the
>>       make install
> 
> I agree, it is much saner to install it to /bin.  That should make 
> creating an installer for Git (the compiled one) easier, too.

Perfect! All neatly packaged in c:\MSysGit\bin now :-)

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>> 3) When "Setting up git" the second time, it feels like the whole thing
>> is hanging; have let it run for ~5min now without anything happening.
>> Not sure what's going on here. It looks like git.exe was ran with any
>> options, but that should not consume 100% CPU.. Hmm
> 
> Yep.  I did not test the initial phase, and there is a serious bug in 
> setup_git_directory_gently() in origin/devel.  I fixed that.

Yup, work now.

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>> 4) When using the install, I get
>> marius@STORM /git
>> $ git init
>> warning: templates not found C:/msysGit/share/git-core/templates/
>> Initialized empty Git repository in .git/
>>
>> Probably due to the "Setting up git" step not completing.
> 
> That is expected.  Hooks are activated by chmod'ing them to executable.  
> AFAIK this concept is thoroughly broken by Windows.  So I do not even 
> attempt to install the templates; otherwise all hooks would be blindly 
> activated (and you do not want that, trust me).

Actually, the MinGW build uses NOEXECTEMPL to set a '.noexec' postfix to the template files, so they are not executed, even with Windows brokeness. ;-) So, you can safely copy them into msysgit\shared\git-core\templates.

> P.S.: I also uploaded the script I created to make the installer.  It
> assumes that you installed 7zip to C:\Program Files\7-Zip but is
> trivial to adapt to your setup.

Thnx! I guess I should become a member of the project then, so I can upload packages when needed :-) (I already have a code.google.com account 'mstormo', so you can add that user)

Later! -- .marius