From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 22:50:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] prefix discovery at runtime (on Windows)
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de> writes:
>
>> Apologies for proposing such large changes that late in the release cycle.
>> Maybe we want to postpone the series until 1.6.0.1 or even 1.6.1.
>
> Well, from the cursory look, it does not seem to be 1.6.0.1 material, even
> though it is possible to fork a topic at 1.6.0 and use the changes in
> 'next', then 'master', and eventually to 'maint' to produce 1.6.0.X, if
> all of this hapapens before 1.6.1.
>
> I wouldn't mind at all if the binary distribution on Windows is based on
> "git.git plus port specific patchset that will eventually be sent
> upstream" like it used to be.  In fact it might even be preferrable, as I
> won't be testing ports to that platform myself anyway.

If the depth difference between /usr/libexec/git-cat-file and /bin/git is
the major source of this headache, I do not think it is unreasonable for
the mingw git port to use "gitexecdir=$(bindir)" layout by default.  After
all, Windows users do not really care where bulk of things are, as long as
they see one single clickable icon on the desktop, don't they?