Re: MinGW port - initial work uploaded

From: Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 23, 2007, 13:12 UTC
Message-ID: <46d6db660701230512l571d8c35k24e475c3fe0933cf@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701231227200.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>

On 1/23/07, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

> Maybe we have to go the other way round, just as POSIX git does: instead
> of spawning the pager, we should _beginthread() the actual work, and
> execl() the pager.

actually, one other issue is the spawning of vim when doing commits. I usually end up in using -m "my commit message" because of these 2 errors (basically terminal not recognized, I tried many different options to no avail)

$ git commit -a
Vim: Warning: Output is not to a terminal
Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal

> On the third hand, I fully expect git on Windows to be used only by GUI
> wieners who cannot handle the command line, let alone a pager! ("WTF! How
> do I go back to that dollar thingie? You know, where I type git-blabla?")

maybe I'm stuck with windows at work, but I still use vim inside mingw. it would be nice to fix the pager issue...

>
> Since Tcl/Tk is available for MinGW, git-gui seems to be a way to go
> there.

I did not know about this... let me try... yes! not bad... it's working too, so your assumption was correct.

thanks for the suggestion.

-- Christian