From: Marius Storm-Olsen <marius@storm-olsen.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:59:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/14] Add README and gitignore file for MSVC build
Message-ID: <4A91917F.9000709@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <3f4fd2640908231122m34604196pc98c5871cf5925b5@mail.gmail.com>

Reece Dunn said the following on 23.08.2009 20:22:
> 2009/8/23 Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Marius Storm-Olsen<mstormo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> From: Frank Li <lznuaa@gmail.com>
>>>
>>> +3. Open gitbuild\gitbuild.sln with VS2008. Then press F7.
>> F7 does nothing in VS2008, to build the solution you have to press
>> Ctrl+Shift+B. To build and start debugging you have to press F5, and
>> for start without debbuging support is Ctrl+F5.
> 
> IIRC, Visual Studio can be configured to use different keyboard shortcuts.
> 
> However, saying "press F7" says nothing of the intent. It would
> probably be better to have this say something like "Then build the
> solution." or "Open gitbuild\gitbuild.sln with Visual Studio 2008,
> then build it." But then you don't need to open Visual Studio 2008 to
> build it (you can build it from command line).
> 
> So, how about:
>    3. You can now build git with Visual Studio 2008 using the
> gitbuild\gitbuild.sln file.
> 
> - Reece

Agreed.
Thanks guys.

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.marius