Re: MinGW port: some questions

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: May 16, 2007, 19:09 UTC
Message-ID: <7vejlgegb9.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <1179341520.31213.38.camel@bruno.nolaviz.org>

Alon Ziv <alonz@nolaviz.org> writes:

> I am referring, for example, to the changes from commit dc380d6, which
> were reverted in Git mainline (actually in "next", they never reached
> Git's "master").  Or to the changes from 4493e36, which had the same
> fate.

MinGW repository bases its work on my 'next', so it will not be pulled wholesale to my 'master'. The plan is to trickle down the platform independent bits of fixes and refactoring to the mainline, as well as #ifdef __MINGW32__ and $(findstring MINGW) parts, but that will most likely happen as a series of bite sized patch series to the list with public reviews.

I do not know if you mistyped dc380d6 (I do not find it there), but reverting 4493e36 (merge of jc/3way) was intentional. The work in that commit that deviates from the mainline is the jc/3way topic, which turned out to be incomplete and not very usable. MinGW tree might not have synchronized with the latest from the mainline in which case it might not have merged the revert from me yet, and that may be why you are seeing the differences.