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, 18:39 UTC
Message-ID: <46B3764E.6090106@trolltech.com>
In-Reply-To: <fd2562310708031133m72b43265n35277c360ef2ca7a@mail.gmail.com>

Mike Pape wrote:

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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.
> 
> Works for me as well now.  One catch is that at work, I'm behind a
> firewall so git:// doesn't work for me.  I have a packaged version
> that adds curl and expat, enables them in the build, and then falls
> back to http:// if git:// fails in /etc/profile.  Is that something
> you'd want up on code.google.com?

Ooo, I'd like your built curl and expat libs in a zip, pretty please! :-)

Then we can add it to the package. The more complete MinGW port, the better. Do you have anywhere you can put out such a zip, so I can get ahold of it? You can mail me privately, if you'd like.

-- .marius