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Re: Re: Re: [ANNOUNCE] WinGit - native x86/x64 Git for Windows

From
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 22, 2014, 16:00 UTC
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Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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> On Mon, 21 Apr 2014, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > Now, clearly you have all the motivation that is needed to get 64-bit
> > > builds of Git for Windows going, and all the motivation required to make
> > > sure that the MSVC support of the msysGit project works.
> > 
> > s/msysGit/Git/
> 
> No. I meant the msysGit project; the project that maintains the current
> development environment for Git for Windows. Please do not try to
> reinterpret what I am saying.

I don't care what you are saying, what I'm saying is that he has the motivation to do it for the Git project. Why on Earth would he do it for the msysGit project, when he can do it for the Git project (which would then percolate to the msysGit project as well)?

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> > Personally I don't see why ideally I shouldn't be able to build upstream
> > Git for Windows with mingw without leaving my Linux system.
> 
> Maybe because you could not even test it properly, let alone run the test
> suite?
Ideally you could.
> And maybe because according to the famous "scratch your own itch"
> credo, it is actually the duty of Windows users -- i.e. users who do not
> even have your Linux system -- to fix the bugs that would never be
> encountered anywhere but Windows?

That is your conclusion. If somebody reasonable sends reasonable patches that make WinGit work in a way that doesn't impact negatively non-Windows users, I don't see why they wouldn't be picked.

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Message 19 of 21 in “Re: [ANNOUNCE] WinGit - native x86/x64 Git for Windows”
  1. Marat RadchenkoApr 19, 2014
  2. Thomas BraunApr 19, 2014
  3. Johannes SchindelinApr 19, 2014
  4. Heiko VoigtApr 19, 2014
  5. Sebastian SchuberthApr 19, 2014
  6. Johannes SchindelinApr 20, 2014
  7. Johannes SchindelinApr 20, 2014
  8. Sebastian SchuberthApr 21, 2014
  9. Johannes SchindelinApr 21, 2014
  10. Felipe ContrerasApr 21, 2014
  11. [NOT_A_PATCH] A naive attempt to cross-build Linux->mingw64 GitMarat Radchenko, Apr 21, 2014
  12. Felipe ContrerasApr 21, 2014
  13. Felipe ContrerasApr 22, 2014
  14. Marat RadchenkoApr 22, 2014
  15. Felipe ContrerasApr 22, 2014
  16. Johannes SchindelinApr 22, 2014
  17. Johannes SchindelinApr 22, 2014
  18. David KastrupApr 22, 2014
  19. Felipe ContrerasApr 22, 2014
  20. Johannes SchindelinApr 22, 2014
  21. Sebastian SchuberthApr 19, 2014

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