From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:31:01 GMT
Subject: Re: Switching from CVS to GIT
Message-ID: <47135D85.50701@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <E1IhNox-0004n2-N5@fencepost.gnu.org>

Eli Zaretskii schrieb:
>> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 09:47:25 +0100 (BST)
>> From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
>> cc: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>, git@vger.kernel.org, 
>>     raa.lkml@gmail.com, ae@op5.se, tsuna@lrde.epita.fr, make-w32@gnu.org
>>
>> If you could make Git compile with Visual C++, that would be fabulous.
> 
> I prefer GCC (the MinGW port), but without the MSYS ports of
> additional tools.  I use the GnuWin32 ports augmented by some of my
> own (where GnuWin32 ports are buggy or terribly slow).

They should work, too. If a tool is missing, ought to notice it soon enough.

These are important to note, though:

- The tools must not do their own LF->CRLF conversion when they are used in 
a pipeline, "just because they know it better".

- GNU tar is needed (in the cpio emulator).

- ln must be able to create hard links on NTFS or do the equivalent of
cp -p

- GNU cp -al will be needed and should create hard links on NTFS. (I plan to 
use it for local clones in place of cpio -pl.)

Any feedback on how git works for you with these tools is appreciated.

-- Hannes