Re: Switching from CVS to GIT

From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
Date: Oct 15, 2007, 20:43 UTC
Message-ID: <7287AD62-3274-4B20-881C-D02E08C4B2EF@zib.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710152117290.25221@racer.site>

On Oct 15, 2007, at 10:19 PM, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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>>  I think you may be stuck on the shell though -- I don't know of any
>> ports of bash that aren't MSYS or Cygwin based.  However I do think
>> there's a native port of zsh out there by the GnuWin32 project, which
>> when renamed as just "/bin/sh" might be suitable, but only if these
>> scripts don't use bash-isms.  I have not tried this zsh myself and
>> speed/compatibility wise I'm not sure it's up to snuff.

I can't find zsh on the GnuWin32 project page.

> There is a port of BusyBox' dash, which is nearing completion.  Once
> Nguyen says it is ready enough, we will try to integrate it into  
> msysGit.

Gnuarch [1] recommends zsh from the unxutils project [2].

	Steffen

[1] http://www.gnuarch.org/gnuarchwiki/Native_WIN32_Support [2] http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/