From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:06:47 GMT
Subject: Re: Switching from CVS to GIT
Message-ID: <E1IhNmZ-0002UD-3c@fencepost.gnu.org>
In-Reply-To: <E45D25D3-F37A-49BE-8B83-B4567322D41D@zib.de>

> Cc: Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de, git@vger.kernel.org, raa.lkml@gmail.com,
>         ae@op5.se, tsuna@lrde.epita.fr, make-w32@gnu.org
> From: Steffen Prohaska <prohaska@zib.de>
> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 11:23:37 +0200
> 
> Ok, so I uploaded the most recent preview of the installer to
> 
> http://msysgit.googlecode.com/files/WinGit-1.5.3-preview20071010.exe

Thanks!

> Note, we're about to release an updated version soon. Personally,
> I don't plan to put work in providing tar balls. A working installer
> has higher priority for me.

Fair enough.

> msysgit's GitMe contains all tools from MSYS required to build git.
> It also clones the git source and compiles it. It doesn't install
> anything outside the folder that you chose upon installation.
> 
> I strongly believe it is the easiest way to compile git from source.

Okay, thanks a lot for the info.