Re: MinGW port usable

From: Christian MICHON <christian.michon@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 29, 2007, 23:48 UTC
Message-ID: <46d6db660701291548j454d7d70w9302640e28b0e70e@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070129232425.GB31372@spearce.org>

On 1/30/07, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:

> Try creating a desktop icon (Repository->Create Desktop Icon) and
> start git-gui from the resulting .bat file.  It *should* come up
> right on MinGW, but I'm only guessing here.

ok noted for tomorrow's tests :)

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> The other one that I'm curious about is if fetch/push/merge work.
> merge requires git-merge right now, which is a shell script.
> fetch is the same, but push is pure C so it should work.  But I
> don't think the Tcl environment will make it into the child, which
> means things like SSH_AUTH_SOCK don't get used.

I'll see what I can do.

> But I really should just install the git-mingw port on one of
> my windows systems and play with it.  If its faster than Cygwin
> then it's worthwhile.

one of the hassles with this mingw thingy is that you need to install it, and whatever you compile gets inside it, like libs, includes, etc... Whenever I come out with a stable product that can be sfx'ed inside a 7zip executable, I do it, to avoid installing/uninstalling or even modifying it.

it works like a charm with msys/mingw, and I guess git/gitk/git-gui will all work in this way too. Once this port is ready for mass testing, I guess we can either show how to compile it (actually some patches are still needed, like no symlinks exist on msys/mingw, so we should replace those links by bash scripts), or provide a 7z sfx binary that can help <<pushing>> git to the mass. On this last possibility I can help out...

your call, guys. :)

> The blame feature is in git-gui (went in last night).  It requires
> the --incremental patches from Linus&Junio, which are now in git.git
> master.  It also needs a big display, as the interface is horrid.  :)

I'll find a big one then.

-- 
Christian