Re: MinGW port - initial work uploaded

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jan 23, 2007, 11:32 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701231227200.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <200701222127.09601.johannes.sixt@telecom.at>

Hi,

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Johannes Sixt wrote:

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> OTOH, git log, git diff, etc, which run the pager by default, are 
> broken. It seems that the pipe is not correctly flushed by the writer, 
> which the MinGW port closes in an atexit() routine, so that the last 
> part of the piped data is missing. I have no clue how to fix this except 
> by disabling the pager.

Maybe we have to go the other way round, just as POSIX git does: instead of spawning the pager, we should _beginthread() the actual work, and execl() the pager.

On the third hand, I fully expect git on Windows to be used only by GUI wieners who cannot handle the command line, let alone a pager! ("WTF! How do I go back to that dollar thingie? You know, where I type git-blabla?")

Since Tcl/Tk is available for MinGW, git-gui seems to be a way to go there.

Or to continue on the TortoiseCVS lookalike...

Ciao, Dscho